Her father was an astute businessman and a hard worker, but also handsome in the face which had aided partly his ascension to the Guild. 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. “This,” he exclaimed, “must be either the indifference of an utterly callous nature, or it may be—ye gods, it may be—innocence. . “Don’t tell anyone I told you this. At the least, the tales had the ability to make her forget where she was; which was something in their favour. Accounts were now always where he could put his hand on them. Speedily recovering himself, however, he rejoined, with forced calmness, "You are mistaken, Sir.
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