For ten years I've been trying to go home, but my
conscience will not permit me, I hate the Orient. ” But
now she doubted again of the quality of the armistice they had just made. “Call it warning, if you like. 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. On one side of the handbill a print of the reigning sovereign, Anne,
had been pinned over the portrait of William the Third, whose aquiline nose,
keen eyes, and luxuriant wig, were just visible above the diadem of the queen. I'm a poor nurse. So Mrs. They
were a dull grey, but the dark frizzed hair that framed her face was attractive. They did not want her. I had two offers of marriage from men
I liked very much indeed, but it never occurred to me to listen to either of them. "
"How did he take it?"
"He did not seem to care. To be alone with her,
in idleness, was an intolerable thought. Fate has two methods of procedure—the sudden and the long-drawn-out. “WHAT a place!
“Stuffy isn’t the word for it. “I won’t go home,” she said; “I won’t!” and she evaded the clutch of the
fatherly policeman and tried to thrust herself past him in the direction of that big
portal.
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