’ Melusine threw her hands in the air. "Well, what can you expect, guzzling poison like that? Are you returning with us to Hong-Kong in the morning?" "No. "Rather a devil," groaned her son, "to have done this. "If I could work as fast as you, I might afford to be as idle. That was the inconvenience of it; her head was swimming. You must let me take you to things—to meetings and things, to conferences and talks. 275 “Yes!” She answered, feeling joy and fear well in her chest. I must apologize, I suppose, for speaking to you, but your appearance certainly indicated that you were in some sort of trouble, and you were becoming—pardon me—an object of comment to the passers-by. ‘Comment? This is not a mirror!’ It was a portrait. The characters of the youthful occupants of the room might be detected in every article it contained. 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. . " "Yes, yer hon'r," replied the chairman, taking the note. " All day long the phrase interpolated her thoughts.
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