“Everything goes on, confound it!
One doesn’t change anything one has set going by making good resolutions. WARD, LOCK & CO. But to choose this of all moments. The cry was echoed by
twenty different voices. The ribald demons that infested the back of Ann Veronica’s mind urged
various facetious interrogations upon her, as, for example, where the witness had
acquired his prose style. Of course, it really signified nothing in this
careless part of the world that she was travelling alone. ”
“Yes,” said his prospective fellow-sailor, “that’s very pretty. In vain he fondly urged his suit,
And, all in vain, the question put;
She answered,—"Mr. Just as they reached the eastern outlet of the churchyard—
where the tall elms cast a pleasant shade over the rustic graves—a momentary
stoppage took place. ”
“So far as one can judge from the system in practice,” said Ann Veronica,
speaking in a loud, common-sense, detached tone, and beginning to walk slowly
but resolutely toward the lawn, “it doesn’t work. "I shall do no such thing. What of madame, his wife?’
‘You know more of her than me,’ the girl said with a look of scorn. '—'No fear o' that,' thought I. 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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