‘I do not understand you. "Does your father doubt it? Speak! tell me!" Winifred made no answer. 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. As usual Brendon lit the candles, and Sydney dragged out the spiritlamp and set it going. ‘Shall we abandon the guard, then, sir?’ ‘Certainly not. I——” Then he stopped short, for he began to remember things. There lay upon this stand a book bound in limp black leather—the Holy Bible. “By Jove!” he broke out, “one tries to take a serious, sober view. "If the best nag ever foaled were to throw me in this unlucky spot, I'd blow his brains out.
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