When Sheila was in a good mood, one almost enjoyed her. I like high tone for a flourish and stars and ideas; but I want my things. Miraculously, her schoolmates were so upswept in their own summer planning that they had no time to interrogate her. Everyone has gone away again, so that I can do so all alone. It’s—it’s a social difference. Gazing into each other's eyes with new-found rapture, neither observed the sudden appearance in the doorway of an elderly woman in travel-stained linen. One keeps rules in order to be one’s self. He had not bothered to take off his raincoat and his umbrella sat dripping on his modern ice cube of a table. The iron slipped from his face, leaving it blank with astonishment. The loneliness of the place somewhat depressed her. The assemblage which was gathered together was almost countless. 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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