. The poor child! What frightful things she must have seen on that island of hers! The noise of crashing glass caused a diversion; and Ruth turned gratefully toward the sound. . ” Her father declared there had been no difficulty. 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. White men and natives dealt conveniently at Copeley's. The oblique ruddy lighting distorted them oddly, made queer bars and patches of shadow upon their clothes. " "Mr. She'll have this hour always with her; and you failed her. She turned away from the doorway of the silk loom to observe. In one of the cabins a man sat on the edge of his narrow bunk. I see that compromise is more necessary to life than I ignorantly supposed it to be, and I have been trying to get Lord Morley’s book on that subject, but it does not appear to be available in the prison library, and the chaplain seems to regard him as an undesirable writer. ” “And you can’t?” “I don’t think I ought to control myself. I would like you to believe that the decision I have arrived at—to stay away—is wholly and entirely to save you pain.
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