Sheppard's habitation terminated a row of old ruinous buildings, called
Wheeler's Rents; a dirty thoroughfare, part street, and part lane, running from
Mint Street, through a variety of turnings, and along the brink of a deep kennel,
skirted by a number of petty and neglected gardens in the direction of Saint
George's Fields. A distant suggestion of chalets and a glimpse of the road set
them talking for a time of the world they had left behind. 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. Pure luck! If the boy had grown a moustache or a beard, a needle in the haystack
would have been soft work. "What does Mr. He had, for
the most part, been correct. He put his free arm around her and held the censer ready; and as Ruth snuggled
her cheek against his sleeve, they were, so far as intent, in each other's arms. “You propose, then,” she remarked, “that I shall still be saddled with a pseudo
husband.
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