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ALL LX A GARDEN FAIR.
look, as of one avIio lias already succeeded.
Will's face was generally grave, because, though
many resolve to succeed, few carry out that
resolution. Many long to travel on the same
road as Dick Wliittington, but cannot find their
way. Yet the air of London is charged with
the stories of those who have succeeded : the
pavement is worn with the steps of those who
have succeeded. He would get on, somehow ;
he must find out the wav, some time.
Allen never felt any doubt or despondency
at all. He held his head high, as one who has
already succeeded ; his eyes were triumphant
he was a young conqueror, because in imagina-
tion he had already succeeded, and because the
success of which he dreamed can be won at a
single bound, and because it is success in a
line in which tliere are not many rivals, and
because it is success of a kind not desired by
the practical.
We have not forgotten Olintlius. He had
long since left them, yet he lived in the village
and was still one of tlicm. His future looked