Sir Cecil, who with Rowland and some others had entered the room rushed to the window with a torch. You mustn't go by what you read so much as by what you see and hear. Manning might go on now idealizing her as much as he liked. It seemed at first the most beautiful afternoon of all time to her, and perhaps the thrill of her excitement did add a distinctive and culminating keenness to the day. “I really do not believe,” he announced with satisfaction, “that any one would recognize me. The priceless things were gathered, the belongings packed. He was smiling under his heavy mustache, and his head was a little on one side as he looked at her. If only this child were his: what good times they would have together! The thought passed on, but it left a little ache in his heart. 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. Michelle walked towards the sloping Victorian stairs.
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