the open air, glad to escape the sight of objects, 
every one of which only suggested how utterly alone 1 stood in the 
world, when the departure of one friend had left me companionless. 

No one save he who has experienced it can form any just idea of 
. the intense hold a career of any kind will take of the mind of him, who, 
without the ties of country, of kindred, and of friends, devotes all his 
energies in one direction. The  that might, under other 
influences, have grown up  ^the  that might have flourished in 
the happy sphere of a home, become the springs of a more daring 
wordnetdesire. In proportion as he deserts other roads in life, the path he 
has struck out for himself seems wider and grander, and his far-seeing 
eye enables him to look into the long  with a prophetic vision, 
where are rewards for his hard- won victories, the recompense of long 
years of toil. The pursuit, become a wordnetdesire, gradually draws all 
into its vortex ; and that success which at first he believed only attain- 
able by some one mighty effort, seems at last to demand every energy of 
his life and every moment of his existence ; and as the miser f^ould 
deem his ruin near, should the most trifling opportunity of gain