"They'll escape. I mean Miss Charvill no harm. “Very sincerely yours,
“ANN VERONICA STANLEY. As he was leaving the hotel, Ah Cum stepped up to his side. Annabel had been here then. ”
“How would you know I’m not ready? I’m older than
you, remember? Sometimes you act so worldly, as if
you’d seen it all. ’
She turned, her eyes narrowed. She had never expected John
capable of saying such things, of thinking such macabre
ideas. ”
“May I ask,” Anna said softly, “what you presume to have been the nature of my
errand here this evening?”
Sir John pointed to Annabel, who was as yet utterly limp. It
would be downright cruel to disillusion her. 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.
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