”
Mr. Will you lend me the money
for my ticket to London?”
“With all the pleasure in the world,” he answered heartily. 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. How she had hated it!… All these
mumblings which were never explained, which carried no more sense to her
brain than they would have carried to Old Morgan's swearing parrot. “Let me
show you something. Several
people were passed out on the sectional sofa, and muffled
noises emanated from other rooms indicating that the
party’s embers were still smoldering, but John was
nowhere to be seen. E. Melusine soon found herself seated at a table, with a dirty piece of paper in
front of her, and a badly mended pen between her fingers. Her parents
totally look the other way. ’
Melusine wrenched her wrists out of his hold and stepped back, digging into
her skirts, which she had adequately prepared some days ago. ‘Nothing of the sort,’ argued Gerald. ‘You do not like it?’
‘That is hardly the point.
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