" "I don't require it," returned Sheppard. " "No. “Should I leave? Sounds like she is running out of food. “Oh, we are also under the spell,” he declared, “but I think that we are here mainly because it is cheap. But it's best to be on the safe side. I can’t tell anyone certain things about my life. He remembered also, all at once, the very first words he had heard her speak: “I was not born to this. “Lucy? Ms. He smiled. She did not answer him, as she did not know what to say. But he could only discern a black and shapeless mass, floating upon the water at a little distance, which, to his bewildered fancy, appeared absolutely standing still. Lucy snatched it up and put it in her pack. God gives us an equal chance; but we make ourselves. These women could not be bad, else the hotel would not have permitted them to enter! Still, the scene presented a riddle: to give immunity to the black women who went about all but naked and to damn the white for exposing their shoulders! She had eaten but little; all her hunger had been in her eyes—and in her heart. 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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