And this time the departure had a tremendous effect of finality. An action which gave Gerald furiously to think. He recalled with exasperating perplexity her clear, matter-of-fact tone as she talked about love-making being unconvincing. Or perhaps my father once. She responded at once, rapping him on the knuckles with her fan. I hated the stuff. I will lay them all at your feet. Oh, it was very bad. 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. This discovery made, I hastened back to London to offer you my hand, but found you had married in the mean time a smock-faced, smooth-tongued carpenter named Sheppard. My son wanted to marry a woman of thirty in a tobacconist’s shop.
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