Something in his smile, in the cynical suggestiveness of his deferential tone, maddened her. What’s your name?” He asked in return. Ruth took hers in the sea, but was careful never to go beyond her depth because of the sharks. He noted that she was fully dressed, that her hair was carefully done, that there was a knotted ribbon around her throat. 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. ’ ‘What heir?’ ‘Exactly. I was looking for rooms last week. All along the wooden benches before it sat a profusion of soldiery, a collection of barbers in attendance, busily employed in replaiting and powdering their hair ready for a military review scheduled for this afternoon. Natives are queer.
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