CHAPTER XXIV Spurlock's novel was a tale of regeneration. They were sitting alone, Lucy. 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. And here he was first visited by that genius which, in his subsequent career, prompted him to so many bold and successful attempts. The whole incident was so unexpected that neither Courtlaw nor Brendon were awaiting. Wild was formerly an agent to the Jacobite party, but, on the offer of a bribe from the opposite faction, he unhesitatingly deserted and betrayed his old employers. ” “But it is too late,” she declared. He wanted her named Mary. " "Let this speak for me," said Sheppard, tossing a heavy bag of money towards him. Lucy had been ignoring her, not purposefully, but noticeably. Together they crept through the erstwhile drawing room and entered the massive flagged hall. " "I don't know," said McClintock. If he died, here in this hotel, who would care? Or if she died, who would care? A queer desire blossomed in her heart: to go to him, urge him to see the folly of trying to forget. Honestly, I never did.
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