Once a thriving town before the Pestilence, most of the buildings and the piers had been destroyed or burned. Forgive me, but you have been looking, have you not, for some employment?” “Quite true!” she answered. ‘Tell me the truth, Melusine. She appeared not to have realised the implications of her outburst, but clung a little to Gerald’s hands which had taken hers in a comforting clasp. It was a serene and charming evening, and twilight was gently stealing over the face of the country. . Then before she could say a word to arrest him he was at her side. “Good evening, Dorling,” he said. 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. From under his pillow he dragged forth the key to the trunk.
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