It rather astonished him. " This expression was old in Ruth's ears. She was standing before a window, against the background of the rain-burdened April sky. 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. ’ They passed through a little antechamber, and Melusine sighed with relief as she entered the library next door. So, here he was, on the last lap of middle age, in China, having missed all the thrills in life except one—the war against Death. The faithful fellow will never leave me. I believe it amused him. " "True," replied the widow, upon whom all the terrible recollections of the day before crowded, "I know it isn't.
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