” The dinner came to an end at last, and the whiskered waiter presented his bill and evacuated the apartment and closed the door behind him with an almost ostentatious discretion. “With your permission,” he said to Anna, “I shall arrange a bed for him where he is. 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. “A volatile temperament—yes, a volatile temperament,” Mr. He meets Anna, and claims her as his wife. And so I'll tell you what I did —" And she burst into a laugh that froze Jack's blood in his veins. The twists in his brain had suddenly straightened out; he was normal, wholly himself; and he knew now exactly what he had done. "I cannot break my vow. Ruth came to him directly.
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