Yet before she turned once more to resume her flight she schooled herself with
an effort to look where it had happened. ”
The irrepressible smile curved Anna’s lips. “Is that plain?” she asked. ”
“Yeah, I think she hates you, hon. She had prepared
herself to meet violent protest, a recurrence of that burning glance. She put a hand to the lad’s cold cheek and choked on a sob. 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 will not attempt to combat your resolution, Jack," returned Thames, after a
pause. “They mould one insensibly. “If you attempted such a thing it
would be in order that I should smack you hard with the palm of my hand upon
the cheek. He had
found her in a communicative mood, and he used the accumulated skill of years
in turning that to account.
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