He can't play cards, either, when he's sober. Are we to see him here?"
"Yes, my love. I am quite sure though that they
did not mean to be rude. He made it more and more evident to her that her proper
course was not to earn a salary but to accumulate equipment. “One has to be so careful of one’s friends and acquaintances,” he remarked, by
way of transition. I took the money myself, and ought to know. “What happened to your parents, Lucy? Is it all
right if I ask?”
Lucy looked at her with a soft gaze. Dare we look back upon the
darkened vista, and, in imagination retrace the path we have trod? With how
many vain hopes is it shaded! with how many good resolutions, never fulfilled,
is it paved! Where are the dreams of ambition in which, twelve years ago, we
indulged? Where are the aspirations that fired us—the passions that consumed us
then? Has our success in life been commensurate with our own desires—with the
anticipations formed of us by others? Or, are we not blighted in heart, as in
ambition? Has not the loved one been estranged by doubt, or snatched from us
by the cold hand of death? Is not the goal, towards which we pressed, further off
than ever—the prospect before us cheerless as the blank behind?—Enough of
this.
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