The ceiling had, in many places, given way; the laths had been removed; and, where any plaster remained, it was either mapped and blistered with damps, or festooned with dusty cobwebs. “That young man was giving a luncheon party to a dozen friends at the Café de Paris to-day. The soil was identical, the climate; still, they would not bear the Olympian fruit, with its purple-lined jacket and its snow-white pulp. “After all,” she said, “if this person will not be reasonable, I am afraid——” It was enough. “I will have your true reason. ” “Upon my word,” he declared, “you are right. 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. ” For some seconds he had remained quite still. ” She took a step. As he balanced the photograph, a humorous twinkle came into his eyes. But, you see, I’m smirched. "If you are in earnest, Thames," she replied, with a look of gentle reproach, "you are very foolish; and, if in jest, very cruel. Morningside Park was a suburb that had not altogether, as people say, come off. It was shameful, but again, her mother had prepared her for it.
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