But this wild scheme was speedily abandoned; and, nerved by despair,
the carpenter resolved to hazard an attempt, from the execution, almost from the
contemplation, of which he had hitherto shrunk. 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. I
said to myself at once, ‘Either this is a coincidence or the caper sauce. “I don’t take any prisoners, John! You do not want
this life!”
“Yes I do! I am an adult. "Before to-
morrow night that boy shall join his father. Seems as she don’t trust soldiers easy. “We are the music and you are the instrument,” she said; “we
are verse and you are prose. ‘Do you think I do not know? What am I doing here, do you think?’
‘That’s just exactly what I’ve been asking myself,’ he returned.
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