‘As for an heir, I have Alderley cousins enough. For nearly thirty years he had lived here in contented loneliness; then youth had to come and fill him with discontent. But with Gosse and the woman in prison here, there is always the chance that the whole affair may be raked up all over again. She stabbed him with her canines. I have always been lonely. Let him not bear the weight of my punishment. Do you know, Ann Veronica, it is all a lie about your birth certificate; a forgery—and fooling at that. 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. " The Wastrel tried to reach Ruth's lips.
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