The silence of Canton at night was sinister, for none could prophesy what form of mob might suddenly boil out. . He took his social pleasures once a year in Hong-Kong, after Easter. He, next, discovered that Blueskin was gone; and, pursuing his scrutiny, found that he had carried off all the banknotes, gold, and letters,—including, what Jonathan himself was not aware of,—the two packets which he had abstracted from the person of Thames. This world over here! Everything's upsidedown or back-end-to. No one could take the place for anything but what it was, and even Gosse hesitated in the doorway. When I am leading a true life, a pure and simple life free of all stimulants and excitements, I think—I think— oh! with pellucid clearness; but if I so much as take a mouthful of meat—or anything—the mirror is all blurred. . Her teeth were chattering so hard that she had to clench them for fear of biting off her own tongue. On the day he carried the manuscript to Copeley's he brought back a packet of letters, magazines, and newspapers. The ripple of the water against the boat, as its keel cleaves through the stream—the darkling current hurrying by—the indistinctly-seen craft, of all forms and all sizes, hovering around, and making their way in ghostlike silence, or warning each other of their approach by cries, that, heard from afar, have something doleful in their note—the solemn shadows cast by the bridges—the deeper gloom of the echoing arches—the lights glimmering from the banks—the red reflection thrown upon the waves by a fire kindled on some stationary barge—the tall and fantastic shapes of the houses, as discerned through the obscurity;—these, and other sights and sounds of the same character, give a sombre colour to the thoughts of one who may choose to indulge in meditation at such a time and in such a place. She isn't used to cities.
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