Planting his knee against her side, he pulled her towards him
with one hand, while with the other he sought his knife. ”
Part 4
They lay side by side in a shallow nest of turf and mosses among bowlders
and stunted bushes on a high rock, and watched the day sky deepen to evening
between the vast precipices overhead and looked over the tree-tops down the
widening gorge. I done just what you
asked. If I had
known that you were here you should not have been kept waiting for a second. What you’re after is too risky. I have discovered something of
her background. She
heard the television blaring away. I’ve no name for it yet. “How shall I put the question? What am I? What have I got to do with
myself?. Seven hundred forty-two dollars and eighty-one cents,
the sum total of her money in the world that she hid in a
filigreed cigar box shelved behind her schoolbooks. 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 was and always would be dramatizing his
emotions; perpetually he would be confounding his actual with his imaginary
self. ” He whispered with reverence.
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