"Do you think I'd part with
the sweetest morsel of revenge on those terms? No! But I'll have the secret out of
you by other means. Men ought not to
idealize any woman. Once before—but that had been different. Running his hand carefully over it
in search of the lock, he perceived to his dismay that it was fastened on the other
side. "Sit down, fool!"
"Jack," said Kneebone, who had been considerably interested by the foregoing
scene, "are these regrets for your past life sincere?"
"Suppose them so," rejoined Jack, "what then?"
"Nothing—nothing," stammered Kneebone, his prudence getting the better of his
sympathy. The worthy carpenter was restored to instant good humour by
a glance from his helpmate; and, notwithstanding the infliction he had just
endured, he would have quarrelled with any one who had endeavoured to
persuade him that he was not the happiest of men, and Mrs. "
"No," cried the lady, "this room—I recollect—it has a back window. . \"So what is up with you and John Diedermayer? Is he,
like, after you?\"
She looked at Michelle quizzically. 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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