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It was an odd room, used principally for the reception of guests and visiting
dignitaries, packed from end to end with ill-assorted sofas and padded chairs. I suppose it is the mirrors and
decorations. 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. In her ears there was a medley of sound: wailing music, rumbling tom-toms and
sputtering firecrackers. The pistol was his own, it
is true, but it was one which was taken from him when he forced his way in upon
me before. London, Paris, Rome! There were no hotel labels on the
patient's trunk, but there were ship labels; and by these she was able to
reconstruct the journey: from New York to Naples, thence to Alexandria; from
Port Saïd to Colombo; from Colombo to Bombay; from Calcutta to Rangoon,
thence down to Singapore; from Singapore to Hong-Kong. Easily. Only that I was prevented by one of those soldiers
that caught me in the big house. ‘I’m not going to
arrest you, young Jack—yet. ” He replied. And I think I must pursue my
acquaintance with the fulsome Madame Valade.
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