The times were such that, with the opinions he entertained, he could not remain idle. ” Anna wheeled an easy chair to the fire. All its better points were improved, while the less attractive ones (and they were few in comparison) were subdued, or removed. “I suppose,” said her father, “I have read at least half the novels that have been at all successful during the last twenty years. 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. Prison was bleak without spaciousness, and pervaded by a faint, oppressive smell; and she had to wait two hours in the sullenly defiant company of two unclean women thieves before a cell could be assigned to her. Even now she was dazed. "I cannot but approve the course you are about to take, Jack," said Thames, "though on some accounts I regret it. He was struck disagreeably by Ramage’s air of gallant consideration and Ann Veronica’s self-possessed answers.
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