‘Ah, there is the little menace itself,’ he drawled, recovering some of his own sangfroid. One glance swept across the place and it was immediately apparent that Pottiswick had not, this time, been mistaken. “Won’t you have some more tea, Mr. Here was a poor half-naked creature, with a straw crown on his head, and a wooden sceptre in his hand, seated on the ground with all the dignity of a monarch on his throne. 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. He then looked around him with some curiosity; and, as the thief-taker was occupied in giving directions to his attendant in an undertone, ample leisure was allowed him for investigation. A disagreeable young man, with red hair and a loose mouth, seated at the reporter’s table, was only too manifestly sketching her. One called her very distinctly “My dear!” Two secretarial posts did indeed seem to offer themselves in which, at least, there was no specific exclusion of womanhood; one was under a Radical Member of Parliament, and the other under a Harley Street doctor, and both men declined her proffered services with the utmost civility and admiration and terror. Only that you will hurry and help Jacques. ’ Dieu du ciel, but she was a fool. "We may trust him," he added in a whisper; "he is a staunch friend of the good cause. "You have both," replied Wood, fervently. There are men in the Lowndean who laugh at him—simply laugh at him. Analysis would come later, when the primitive conscience, satisfied, would cease to dominate his thought and action.
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