They are blinded to all fine and subtle things —they look at life with bloodshot eyes and dilated nostrils. 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. “Think of the mockery!” she said. An avid reader in many genres, I love to share books that have given me much pleasure. Bold women certainly existed in the Middle Ages--Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is evidence of this--but meek women were probably the norm, good Christian family ladies who wanted nothing more than to serve God and have children. He helped himself to a beer, then a vodka and tonic, then two rum and Cokes. You see me here, an admitted failure in the object to which I have devoted two years of my life. What better way to be rid of him? ‘Jacques,’ she uttered urgently.
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