" We
hoped so, but were full of doubts.
This is all tame enough to write and read about, but I can tell you it
was sufficiently exciting at the time. Three of us at least were
playing with that comical old fellow, Death, and he gave the game
interest and point to our hearts' content.
Through the thick time-layers of all these years, I can still see the
group as we sat there, haloed by a hazy cloud of tear-mist. The
figures rise before my eyes, so young and fair and rich in life and
yet so pathetic in their troubled earnestness that a great flood of
pity wells up in my heart for the poor young souls, so danger-bound
and suffering, and withal so daring and so recklessly confident in the
might and right of love, and the omnipotence of youth. Ah! If God had
seen fit in his infinite wisdom to save just one treasure from the
wreck of Eden, what a race of thankful hearts this earth would bear,
had he saved us youth alone therewith to compensate us for every other
ill.
As to the elopement, it was determined that Brandon should leave
London the following day for Bristol, and make all arrangements along
the line.
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