But her tears had been for Leonardo’s expulsion, and the loss of his companionship. ‘Here we go again. He would condemn her to the vengeance of the mob all for refusing to marry him. This fall saved him, for the horsemen passed over him. Lucy stood relieved that she had not messed up the solo. ‘And I have a very good mind to kill 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. —'We'll do it,' said they, filling their glasses, and looking as fierce as King George's grenadier guards; 'here's your health, Mint. She looked at it with a little shudder, but she made no motion to take it. We must wave our hands at the blue hills far away there and go back to London and work. You see me here, an admitted failure in the object to which I have devoted two years of my life.
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