“Thank you both for treating me for all the world like I was your child. "Before to-morrow morning I will ascertain what has become of Thames, or perish in the attempt. Some of the delicate colour which the afternoon walk had brought into her cheeks had already returned. 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. After a brief conversation, which Sheppard sustained with his accustomed liveliness, the old man turned to Bess and addressed a few words of common-place gallantry to her. This is my friend, Mr. He had known she would be shocked, but he was equally certain Melusine would have refused to see her grandfather had she been forewarned.
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