Saturday mornings at the Beck house were routine,
coffee, newspaper, bagels, and Looney Toons in no
particular order. "
"You'd better hold your peace, my lad," observed Jonathan, in a menacing tone. And yet, often when alone, he wondered: had McClintock been wrong, or
had she ceased to care in that way? The possibility that she no longer cared
should have filled him with unalloyed happiness, whereas it depressed him, cut
the natural vanity of youth into shreds and tatters. She
was with these movements—akin to them, she felt it at times intensely—and yet
something eluded her. To preserve
herself, however, from destitution, or what she considered worse, she wedded a
journeyman carpenter, named Sheppard. 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. He laid her on their old bed and kissed her from
head to toe.
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