“My dear,” she began, with an affectionate hand on Ann Veronica’s shoulder, “I do SO wish you would realize how it grieves your father. But, alas! she was beautiful—and beauty is a crime not to be forgiven by a jealous woman. “But of course it’s aunt’s doing really. 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. Her lips came together with an expression between contentment and the faintest shadow of a smile, her manner was one of quiet reserve, and behind this mask she was wildly discontented and eager for freedom and life. I am not of the canaille, but a bourgeois. " "Go, I insist," cried Thames, "or take the consequences upon yourself. Amongst other things, he had just brought down an old laced bavaroy, a species of surtout much worn at the period. ’ She smiled on the last words, adding, ‘Oh, I don’t blame you for trying.
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