It was at the top of the building, and looked clear over a clustering mass of inferior buildings toward Regent’s Park. “Can I bring you anything, sir—a whisky and soda, or a liqueur? You’ll excuse me, sir, but you haven’t touched your coffee. "That's false!" cried Mrs. ‘Well, sir, if I’ve to choose betwixt him and you, I’ll take you, no question. 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. But if you wish to do old Wood a friendly turn, you may bring his wife. ’ Melusine stifled a giggle. He looked distant, irritated. She tried to keep her side up by declaring that he had put her into an impossible position, and he replied by shouting, “Nonsense! Nonsense! Any father in my place would have done what I did. Her aunt leaped unhappily to the thought of penitence. Surely our advice would have been worth having, at any rate.
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