Happily they had no one else to wait for, and it heartened her mightily to think that she had ordered the promptest possible service of the dinner. It’s the sort of way a woman always does gloss over her ethical positions. “But then they would find that check endorsed in his bureau. I consented to become Mrs. “You are positively eloquent to-night—both of you,” she declared. Outside the post-office stood a nohatted, blond young man in gray flannels, who was elaborately affixing a stamp to a letter. From this night I shall pursue a different course; from this night his ruin may be dated. I want her to get forward, to set her among people who'll understand what to do with her. Rumors had it he had been a looker in his youth, all long hair and chiseled muscles, but those days were long gone. But some day she would find a place to love: there would be rosy apples on the boughs, and there would be flurries of snow blowing into her face. 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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