And the
sergeant, having carried out all Melusine’s instructions as if they had come out
of his own head, went up to check on his patient, apparently at last convinced
that his prisoner would not attempt to run away. Saturday mornings at the Beck house were routine,
coffee, newspaper, bagels, and Looney Toons in no
particular order. ’
‘Consider me warned,’ said Gerald solemnly. ’
‘You see, I am of them,’ she said seriously, ‘but not with them—yet. "Never mind," replied the tapstress. ” He said. “John, don’t!” she cried. 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. The man could
put a bullet through her before she could hope to reach any one of them. At the period of this history, the main streets of the metropolis were but
imperfectly lighted, while the less-frequented avenues were left in total
obscurity; but, even at the present time, the maze of courts and alleys into which
Wild now plunged, would have perplexed any one, not familiar with their
intricacies, to thread them on a dark night. ”
“I like the mystical way,” she said.
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