"Austin will stare," thought Jack, "when he comes here in the morning. He reappeared in street clothes, his cropped hair not even damp from the shower, fresh-faced and sweetsmelling. ” It was rare that Ann Veronica used hansoms, and to be in one was itself eventful and exhilarating. What of Gosse, whom those soldiers had allowed to escape? Hiding—or perhaps gone. The arrest of this person is of consequence to me. The man’s passion became almost unbearable at the thought of losing her. I wonder——” He turned slowly round. There sat Jack, evidently in the last stage of intoxication, with his collar opened, his dress disarranged, a pipe in his mouth, a bowl of punch and a halfemptied rummer before him,—there he sat, receiving and returning, or rather attempting to return,—for he was almost past consciousness,—the blandishments of a couple of females, one of whom had passed her arm round his neck, while the other leaned over the back of his chair and appeared from her gestures to be whispering soft nonsense into his ear. Upon this young fellow's face there were no wrinkles, only shadows, in the hollows of the cheeks and under the eyes. "He has escaped!" exclaimed the knight; "we have searched every corner of the house without finding a trace of him. To shore up a business that never had any foundation, he wanted me to lend him a hundred thousand; and for his sake as well as for mine I had to refuse. I presume that you have been living alone?” She sighed gently. 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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