CHAPTER XXIX.
CHANGED CIRCUMSTANCES.
Oh, what a sweet charm there is in hope.

How it beguiles the ambitious lover, causes him to build castles he finds crushed at last under his disappointments.

How gently it lifts the drooping heart into an higher realm of cheerfulness, still gilding and brightening the future.

Day after day and week after week it carries the timid, desponding soul over its sea of trouble and disappointment, and pictures its love-dream in colors more and more beautiful.

How it ensnares us, and then betrays us with its false visions of future bliss.