‘But who was he, Gerald?’ ‘A damned condottiere,’ exploded Gerald, forgetting his company. CHAPTER X. 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. ” She replied weakly. I suppose I ought to have been a man. Gerald glanced at Hilary and saw the stunned look on his face. It seemed as if all the precautions previously taken were here accumulated. " "Not now—not now!" she returned, with a shudder. As the lapse of time and change of circumstances have wrought a remarkable alteration in the appearance of the poor widow, it may not be improper to notice it here. ’ ‘Ah, that was an affair altogether different,’ she explained and fluttered her long lashes at him. ’ ‘What, for not wanting to marry you?’ ‘Imbecile. Doctor Ralph looked kind and large, and listened to Alice’s responses as though he was listening to symptoms and thought that on the whole she was progressing favorably.
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