“I love you, Anna, and I want you for my wife. "I repeat," said Ah Cum, "that the venture is not propitious. ‘You! Have you pen and paper?’ ‘Pen and paper now, is it?’ grumbled the old man as he shuffled down the hall. Accepting his glass from the butler, Gerald glanced at Mrs Sindlesham and saw a dimple peep out. Father and daughter regarded each other warily, each more than a little insecure with the other. Spurling, you're a witness to the bet. 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. Ennison was deeply interested. "If things had gone smoothly," he thought, "I should have cursed the fellow's stupidity. As O'Higgins signed the hotel register, his keen glance took in the latest signatures.
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