”
She set the letter down, and drew from her pocket another with a foreign post
mark which had come the day before. She followed the
official back into his room. Why should you who are queens
come down from your thrones? If you can afford it, WE can’t. Lucy snatched it up and put it in
her pack. He must be gone to dispose of the body. 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. Toys! Delicate trifles! A sex of invalids. Glancing at each other, they rose from their seats and
ventured to address the captain.
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