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\"Why will you not touch me?\" She cried out, sitting
up, her head in her hands. 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. “Your name and address in his pocket was no delusion,” he said sharply. “I am giving my understudy a chance. Would Gerald wish his friend to follow the man?
He had hardly registered the decision that he had best do so, albeit with some
reluctance, when his trained senses alerted him to an extraordinary circumstance. Was he pleased?”
“Calmly! He said—you won’t mind my telling you?”
“Not a bit. "I have dreamed that I shall see him before I die," she rejoined. “There is no—Good God!” he exclaimed. "Well, good night, Mr. Look at the cock’s
feathers, look at the competition there is everywhere, except among humans. ‘Obstinate fool!’
She saw Gosse raise a hand, and dug into her nun’s habit for the knife she had
not thought to need.
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