Sebastian crouched on the floor with a single dead victim,
a young highwayman. But I will disappoint you. Her grave fine face, her warm clear complexion,
had already aroused his curiosity as he had gone to and fro in Morningside Park,
and here suddenly he was near to her and talking freely and intimately. Her mind wandered back to that fateful day. Chapter Four
Two days later, it was quite another Melusine who confronted a young lad on a
sunny morning, at variance with her bleak mood. "That's it!"—eagerly. I have worn it for weeks and weeks. He could not
make good his hold. She wondered who the
girl might belong to as she patted dirt over the shallow
grave. . "
She laughed; and it was pleasant laughter in his ears. ‘It must seem strange to you at first. She leaned back in her chair. 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.
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