Gerald studied the darkness beyond the aperture. "Where did you get this from?" asked Wild, greatly surprised at the result of his
investigation. The skipper, Van Galgebrok, affirmed to me,—nay, gave me
the additional testimony of two of his crew,—that he was thrown overboard. ‘Don’t want it
to break out bleeding again. Not MY affair. Sheppard trembled violently; and though she understood his meaning too
well, she answered,—"I can't guess. 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. McClintock wrote me about you; but all I needed
was the sight of your face as it was a moment gone. “Nothing so base. At the period of this history, the main streets of the metropolis were but
imperfectly lighted, while the less-frequented avenues were left in total
obscurity; but, even at the present time, the maze of courts and alleys into which
Wild now plunged, would have perplexed any one, not familiar with their
intricacies, to thread them on a dark night. Marina gently passed the swaddled infant
to his mother, who sat down on the bed proudly to nurse
the baby, extracting a fat breast from her heavy gown.
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