It is the old story of a Westerner meddling with an Eastern custom. ” The dinner came to an end at last, and the whiskered waiter presented his bill and evacuated the apartment and closed the door behind him with an almost ostentatious discretion. 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. ” She said, studying his face, which seemed to lose its childishness a little more with each day. " "Mr. . The more she disentangled the lines of her situation the deeper grew her self-disgust. I don’t want to tear at you with hot, rough hands. We shall see. In her case the barrier was not selfishness but the perception that her interest would be misinterpreted, naturally. But it is that I have a very bad temper, you understand. Occasionally he would lean back and stare at the window which gave upon the sea. ” “But why——” Sir John stopped short. By that time it seemed to them they had lived together twenty years.
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