From the portals of the hotel—scarcely fifty yards from the canal—one saw the blank face of the ancient city of Canton. "Ah!" he exclaimed, in a tone of anguish. "You had better let me convey her to Dollis Hill," he said. "Surely," he added, staring at Rowland, "either I'm greatly mistaken, or it is—" "You are not mistaken, Baptist," returned Rowland with a gesture of silence; "it is your old friend. While Thames modestly expressed a hope that he might not belie the carpenter's favourable prediction, Jack Sheppard thought fit to mount a small ladder placed against the wall, and, springing with the agility of an ape upon a sort of frame, contrived to sustain short spars and blocks of timber, began to search about for a piece of wood required in the work on which he was engaged. 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. ’ ‘Back?’ Melusine put a hand to her aching temple. Selling out of the Army to take up his inheritance had spelled boredom to Gerald Alderley. If this idiotic marriage is binding then I will be her friend. ‘It is all the fault of that lantern. 207 She romanced a dark-haired farmer a few times, having long since forgotten his name. ‘Would that your mistress were as trusting.
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