Hitherto it had been qualified by her conception of all life as a compromise, by her new effort to be unexacting of life. There was little more here than a sideboard, a chest for the vestments, and a simple wooden chair. Where else could she go?’ ‘And there aren’t too many of them around,’ agreed Hilary on a gloomy note. And in those days, too, he used to help her mother with her gardening, and hover about her while she stood on the ladder and hammered creepers to the scullery wall. With this view, he descended the hill and presently found a footpath leading to the church. 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, his robust frame enabled him to hold out. You seemed, he thought, to have some grievance which you would not explain and which he thought must arise from a misunderstanding. ‘Shocked you, have I? We weren’t mealy-mouthed in my day, my boy. If it was not an actual personal lover, it still might be the lover not yet incarnate, not yet perhaps suspected.
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