She had a feeling at his departure as of an immense cavity, of something enormously gone; she could not tell whether it was infinite regret or infinite relief. Yet an indiscriminating, wrong-headed world gave such fellows all sorts of distinctions. Lost in thought, Lucy barely heard Mrs. The hotel on the Peak had the aspect of a fairy castle. “Don’t!” she begged. ” She said. ‘I can’t do that. The windows were grated, the doors barred; each room had the name as well as the appearance of a cell; and the very porter who stood at the gate, habited like a jailer, with his huge bunch of keys at his girdle, his forbidding countenance and surly demeanour seemed to be borrowed from Newgate. However, as things have turned up, it's fortunate that I came back. “Don’t you think I ought to?” she asked, very submissively. \"The movie's not 'til eight o’clock, so we have plenty of time to get ready. 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 delayed the blow till the fortunate conjuncture was past.
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