“I was already aware of the fact. The idea that he held in his arms the girl whom he had once so passionately loved, and for whom he still retained an ardent but hopeless attachment, almost overcame him. She came to spend hours with the bastard children that the women brought, dressing and feeding the tiny ones, inventing games for the older ones. All about her, hither and yon, lay the enticing Unknown. 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. “Dear me!” he said. He seemed inexorable, and inscrutable as fate itself. People spoke of him everywhere as a young man of great promise, a politician by instinct, a keen and careful judge of character.
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