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Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

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CHAPTER XI.<br />

Frailty of a good resolution-Alonzo's gloomy refiections-A scene<br />

<strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> St. Ohsrles coffee-house.<br />

DEEPLY stung with remorse and a sense of shame,<br />

Alonzo Carleton returned from his first spree, fully<br />

resolved <strong>in</strong> his m<strong>in</strong>d never aga<strong>in</strong> to moisten his lips<br />

with strong dr<strong>in</strong>k. Alas! good resolutions are not<br />

always kept: so it turned out with Alonzo. Though<br />

a young man of more than ord<strong>in</strong>ary firmness and<br />

decision of character, hav<strong>in</strong>g once yielded to temptation,<br />

he found himself <strong>the</strong>reafter, easily disarmed and<br />

led away <strong>in</strong>to paths of vice and dissipation. It was<br />

<strong>in</strong> a dark hour, oppressed with gloomy feel<strong>in</strong>gs, that<br />

he aga<strong>in</strong> thought of <strong>the</strong> <strong>in</strong>ebriat<strong>in</strong>g cup; to himself<br />

he said:<br />

"I must pluck from my breast this rooted sorrow, or<br />

else drown it by abandon<strong>in</strong>g myself to.babits of <strong>in</strong>toxicationI<br />

""""'*' * * The Jesuit has accomplished his<br />

purpose - equal to his expectations he must reckon<br />

bis successI Between Anna Maria and ber lover, he<br />

he has effected a wide separation: tbe one, he has led<br />

from a bappy bome-from a sphere of usefulness and<br />

<strong>the</strong> society of friends, <strong>in</strong>to gloomy seclusion - shut<br />

out from all that renders life a bless<strong>in</strong>g I <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r,<br />

driven to madness and dissipation I His perfidious<br />

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