He beamed as she whispered to
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him that she had seen a table so fine or tasted such
wonders. "Do you think I'd part with
the sweetest morsel of revenge on those terms? No! But I'll have the secret out of
you by other means. As she neared the bottom of the dip in Piccadilly she saw a woman
approaching her from the opposite direction—a tall woman who at the first
glance seemed altogether beautiful and fine. 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. Still, it was rather terrible
to suspect that one had fallen from grace, but nevertheless the thing was
possible. “This is all very well,” she said, “but two out of the three are rank deserters—
and if the papers tell the truth the third is as bad. Sheppard!" sighed Winifred, as she contemplated the beautiful wreck
before her,—"Poor Mrs. "Bury her in Willesden churchyard, as she requested, on Sunday," said Jack.
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