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. CHAPTER II. Chapter XXI HER SISTER’S SECRET “I think,” Lady Ferringhall said, “that you are talking very foolishly. Dear me, what a nuisance it is to have a pseudo husband shot down upon one from the skies. 1. . The reward is mine. The aspect of the place, so far as he could discern through the gloom, was strange to him; but chancing to raise his eyes above the level of the surrounding habitations, he beheld, relieved against the sombre sky, the tall steeple of Saint Giles's church, the precursor of the present structure, which was not erected till some fifteen years later. Out of sight of that tell-tale window, the two officers darted across the grounds, speedily gaining the lee of the mansion walls. The unfortunate carpenter struggled violently, but ineffectually. “It really is not necessary. “I suppose my levity is incorrigible. I believe I’m the only sane member of the family left. ‘Gérard!’ ‘Yes, it’s I,’ he said, and grinned.
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