Her long incarceration at the convent in Blaye had taught her to be dismissive of her own appearance. Let me run you for six months. ‘Certainly you are imbecile. You can test it out on us this Thanksgiving Sunday. Then as she lay very still, with her hands clinched and her black hair tumbled about her face, he came still closer and softly kissed the nape of her neck. Then he had gone away. She refused to sleep in the same room with him one night, kicking him in the shins. 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. Ruth did not consider it necessary, however, to add that she had not notified this aunt of her coming, that she did not know whether the aunt still resided in Hartford or was underground. "If that sickly brat lives to be a man," continued Jonathan, rising, "I'll hang him upon the same tree as his father. She kept thinking she was thinking about Mr.
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