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After narrowly examining the countenance of the sitter, and motioning him with
his pencil into a particular attitude, Sir James Thornhill commenced operations;
and, while he rapidly transferred his lineaments to the canvass, engaged him in
conversation, in the course of which he artfully contrived to draw him into a
recital of his adventures. This path, bordered on
each side by high privet hedges of the most beautiful green, soon brought them
to a stile. I’m off to England. "All I want is to be happy!" she said aloud, as if she were asking for something
of such ordinary value that God would readily accord it to her because there was
so little demand for the commodity. ”
Anna smiled very faintly. Is there any truth, do you suppose, in this rumoured marriage?”
“I know nothing,” Courtlaw answered hurriedly. If she had once known him, if he
were some former neighbour, it would be comprehensible. "You will make me the happiest of mankind," cried the woollen-draper, falling
on his knees, and seizing her hand, which he devoured with kisses. Satisfied he was immobilised for the moment, Melusine fell to her knees
beside Jack, dragging at his suddenly heavy body to turn it on its back. If that's true, she's not long for this world. Hogarth, didn't I see
you last night at the ridotto with Lady Thornhill and her pretty daughter?"
"Me!—no, Sir," stammered Hogarth, colouring. 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. Sc.
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