Jack, who had been lingering near the group, now walked on. 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. ’ ‘Now you come to mention it, it is stupid,’ Gerald said, struck. He was wrapped in a loose dressing-gown of light material, and stood near the corner where the women's dresses had just been thrown down, quite out of sight of all the party, except Mrs. ‘Tie a horse behind the carriage?’ he echoed incredulously. Darell's peculiar bent of mind was exemplified in a rusty broadsword, a tall grenadier's cap, a musket without lock or ramrod, a belt and cartouch-box, with other matters evincing a decided military taste. Give this fellow the slip, if you can, Jack. I’ve accustomed myself to think of you— as if you were like every other girl who works at the schools—as something quite outside these possibilities. ” He looked at her anxiously, and she met his glance with a dazzling smile of gratitude. Most of them didn’t, anyhow. “Just at present my mind simply won’t take hold of this at all. Impassive by nature and training, he was conscious to-night of a strange sense of excitement, of exhilaration tempered by a dull background of disappointment.
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