A siphon and a whisky bottle stood before him. He was the Napoleon of knavery, and established an uncontrolled empire over all the practitioners of crime. ” Anna tried to look angry, but her mouth betrayed her. She lit the cigarette with a tiny Kelly green drugstore lighter. “Get you a cold one?” “No thanks. On this side was a razor with which a son had murdered his father; the blade notched, the haft crusted with blood: on that, a bar of iron, bent, and partly broken, with which a husband had beaten out his wife's brains. ’ ‘How exciting. She went to the basement and shed her sodden coat and scarf, tossing them into her favorite modern appliance, the electric dryer. . Thinking of Mantua, she wandered to the courtyard. 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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