By this time Capes’ hair had bleached nearly white, and his
skin had become a skin of red copper shot with gold. “For me,” Manning went on, “this isn’t final. 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. ”
She made her glasses glint. “Yes, aren’t they?” said Ann Veronica, after a thoughtful pause. No, none at all. Not with the unavoidable explanations, and the need to secrete the sword and
hide it before returning the priest’s horse to its stable—which had been her
excuse for running from Martha’s protestations. ’ With an unexpected flush of pleasure,
he recalled the girl’s antics. Spurlock was no longer a man before
this instinct; he was a child in trouble. “The very question shows your ignorance,” he declared.
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