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. Traps, set with peculiar cunning; she had encountered them everywhere. " "I cannot repent,—I cannot pray," replied Jack, recovering his hardened demeanour. Humph. ‘I must see the lady who is my great-aunt. The air was sweet with the smoky perfume of myrrh, hazy and dense with incense. " "You read those yarns?" Spurlock's head came about, and there was eagerness in his eyes. I’m right again now. The eyes left him, searching beside the chair for her cane. “I cannot but conclude,” he said, “that your errand involved the recital to my wife of some trouble in which you find yourself. ” “For what?” Lucy asked. MANNING,” she had begun. ” “I will see that he gets it immediately on his return,” the lady promised. "Yale!" Spurlock's gaze shifted to the dead hills beyond the window; when it returned to the Chinaman there was astonishment instead of interest: as if Ah Cum had been a phantom a moment since and was now actually a human being.
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