Ruth?"
"Why the devil not? Why do you suppose she married you if she didn't love you?
While you read I watched her face. 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. And it’s no good pretending there is
one when there isn’t. "
"I will," replied Sheppard, dashing the glass from his hand. "
"At all events, let me send her away, my dear," supplicated the carpenter,
anxious to avert the impending storm. “In the event of his death we
should require you at once to attend at the inquest. ’
‘Pah! You can never be Valade. “My sister,” she murmured, “is so independent. ‘But if there is
one, how in the world did this mystery lady of yours know of it?’
‘That, Lucy, is precisely the point that has been exercising my mind,’ Gerald
said, turning his eyes once more to the group of French exiles in the alcove. My father has made every possible
inquiry, and offered large rewards; but has not been able to discover the slightest
trace of him. "It's Jonathan Wild come back with a troop of constables at his heels, to search
the house," rejoined Mrs.
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