253 < 32 > LUCY GOES TO DINNER Mike and Lucy trudged over to the Vorsack’s house. What had actually beaten him was not to have known if someone had picked up his trail. He waited for an instant, wasting an encouraging smile in the imperfect light, and then shut the doors of the van, leaving the women in darkness. . ’ ‘Unless it is Captain Roding,’ put in Lucilla Froxfield from the curved back sofa on the other side of the fireplace. ’ The pathetic sob which accompanied the last word had a signal effect on two of the company at least. ’” She played “If I Were a Rich Man,” adding syrupy trills and flourishes at every phrase. We will go to the passage and then I shall bind you. 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.
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