But the relief from the strain of her immediate necessities was immense. After he had eaten dinner with Ruth, he had gone to McClintock's; and he had heard music such as he had heard only in the great concert halls. The bridesmaids and pages got rather jumbled in the aisle, and she had an effect of Alice’s white back and sloping shoulders and veiled head receding toward the altar. "Here are a pair of gloves and a nosegay for you. For a stunned moment, Emile did not speak. 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. “Let me hasten,” she said, “to reassure you. “Why should one pretend?” she whispered. Between her and the fair, far prospect of freedom and self-development manoeuvred Mr. ‘Possibly,’ he said. He bowed over her hand, venturing to drop a kiss on it’s leathery surface. I should have gone mad without it. But before the Grieg concerto was done, she knew that she was free. They know only that the Valades have practised an imposture which affects all society, and some will think your adventures excessively romantic.
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