" The stranger was for a moment lost in reflection. ‘It—it is—nothing,’ she uttered jerkily. In vain did the woollendraper offer to set him free if he would restore the stolen article, or give up his associate, to whom it was supposed he might have handed it. Where was this kindly world she had drawn so rosily in fancy? Disillusion everywhere. ‘Hilary is a darling. She deserves what has befallen her. ’ ‘Poor little devil,’ said Gerald, genuinely sorry for her. But I won't be cheated of my prize. And it is your own fault that your husband dallies with me. Taken altogether, his physiognomy resembled one of those vagabond heads which Murillo delighted to paint, and for which Guzman d'Alfarache, Lazarillo de Tormes, or Estevanillo Gonzalez might have sat:—faces that almost make one in love with roguery, they seem so full of vivacity and enjoyment. I thought my sister and her murdered husband dragged me hither, to this very room, and commanded you to slay me. And I have seen work by his pupils myself that struck me as being—well, next door to shameful. 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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