The
bolder members in the House left their places to go lobbyward, grinning. 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. “Gellett,” he called, “just come and clear up a mess, will you? I’ve smashed
some things. . "And, now,—to Newgate. On the right of the postern against the wall was affixed
a small grating, sustaining the debtor's box; and any pleasure which the passerby might derive from contemplating the splendid structure above described was
damped at beholding the pale faces and squalid figures of the captives across the
bars of its strongly-grated windows. She reflected upon that with a thrill of
terror that was also, somehow, in some faint remote way, gleeful. For a moment her thoughts led her back to the
evening when she and Courtlaw had stood together before the window of her
studio in Paris, before the coming of Sir John had made so many changes in her
life. Denis, did you say? I hope that
no one of our friends has met with an accident. The late afternoon, en effet.
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