CHAPTER X. “I will not ask you to explain further. The guards, horse and foot, and constables formed a wide circle round it to keep off the mob. For a long time he stared at the empty doorway. " He shifted the pages together, rolled and thrust them under her arm. I shall have no faith in future in bolts and bars. And, if I'd my own way with the Secretary of State, he never should. What was she going to do? One main idea possessed her: she must get away from home, she must assert herself at once or perish. The world is known to you. " "But I've got to go!" insisted Rollo, in perfectly understandable dog-talk. Unwillingly he drew a little nearer, and became one of the group of loiterers about the entrance. Suddenly, she heard the crunch of new feet on the gravel. " There had never been, from that fatal hour eight months gone down to this, the inclination to confess. 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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