CHAPTER XXVI. 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. " "Well, I never was more surprised in my life," said the poet,—"never!" "He's just the man I expected to see," observed Hogarth, who, having arranged everything to Thornhill's satisfaction, had turned to look at the prisoner, and was now with his chin upon his wrist, and his elbow supported by the other hand, bending his keen gray eyes upon him, "just the man! Look at that light, lithe figure,—all muscle and activity, with not an ounce of superfluous flesh upon it. ” With a little shrug of the shoulders Anna followed him. Some days, his eyes were green. “I’m rather a persistent person. “Let me see,” he said. There was no such a thing as perfection in a mixed world. Wood hadn't struck me. A drunken idea, Ah Cum had called it. It was not an affair of the conscience; it was vaguely based upon insolence and defiance. “I wish I didn’t swear. Never mind. “And for me it has been Pride and Pride and Pride! “I am the prodigal daughter. It did seem in so many ways exactly what Ramage said it was—the sensible thing to do.
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