The bridge was open. What a pity! For all her ignorance of material things—the human inventions which served the physical comforts of man—how much she knew about man himself! She had seen him bereft of all those spiritual props which permit man to walk on two feet instead of four—broken, without resilience. Courtlaw, is it not,” she remarked, with lifted eyebrows. She marvelled at his apparent imperviousness to the heat. ’ Gerald hissed in a doubtful breath. " "Have it, and welcome," rejoined Figg. The man was thick set, with a bright roving eye. ” There was a shout of laughter. " "That kind of talk makes you sound like a white man. 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. ‘Before she can think of marriage, Melusine must prove her identity. They're only just gone, mercy on us! what a clatter," she added, as the knocking was repeated more violently than before. " "My dear," observed Wood, "you should be more charitable—" "Charitable!" repeated his wife, "that's your constant cry.
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