All sorts of considerations come in. CHAPTER XIV. Jackson. It was necessary to think, and think quickly. “Alone, dear?” “Yes, aunt. The signs of tears had all gone, but some subtle change seemed to have stolen into her face. “Does he live here?” he asked her presently. Sheppard superior to her station. 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 sat very still, and his eyes rested on that ornament for a moment, and then travelled slowly to her wrist and the soft lines of her forearm. ” “Of how beautiful my children would be?” He finished her sentence. On his appearance, Jack levelled a pistol at his head. He was a thin old man, a wreck in a ruined body, but nothing would induce him to stand in any other way than as stiffly erect as possible like the soldier he had always been, even though he was obliged to lean on his silver-handled cane to do so. “There’s endless reasons, no doubt, why we shouldn’t,” he said.
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