" "I do not doubt it," retorted Winifred, scornfully; "because I attach credit neither to one nor the other. " "You see, we didn't know but you might die; and so we had to search your belongings for the address of your people. " "What does it signify?" returned the latter, angrily. “Miss Pellissier,” he said, “I came here this afternoon hoping particularly to see you for a few moments before you signed that contract. The coachman having received his order, and being offered an extra fare if he drove quickly, set off at full speed. You’re a far cry from your usual gloomy self these days. He followed. Only how had they missed him? Were they imbecile? Or perhaps the mists had concealed him from them. How could she tell him of the evil that drew her and drew her, as a needle to the magnet?—the fascinating evil that even now, escaped as it was, went on distilling its poison in her mind? "Yes, yes!" said the doctor. He rose, steadied himself, then walked out of the dining room. Left to himself, he took a survey of the room, and his heart leaped as he beheld over the, chimney-piece, a portrait of himself. The easel and palette having been packed up, and the canvass carefully removed by Austin, the party took leave of the prisoner, who was so much abstracted that he scarcely noticed their departure. Apart from everything else, this meeting of ours is a breach of a good rule. 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.
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