Gay, was a stout, good-looking, good-humoured man, about thirty-six, with a dark complexion, an oval face, fine black eyes, full of fire and sensibility, and twinkling with roguish humour—an expression fully borne out by the mouth, which had a very shrewd and sarcastic curl. For when this Joan said it, I had a memory. He must fight the thought continually, day in and day out. 196 Succeeded where she had not. “Neither you nor I, Nigel, are made of such stuff,” she answered. I can assure you, I wouldn’t be single again for worlds. No breakfast, he’s had no dinner, hardly a mouthful of soup— since yesterday at tea. Mac, she's the honestest human being I ever saw or heard of; and at the same time she is velvet over steel. I sang to him, and he was satisfied. In the distance a bell clanged, and chattering broke out in the doorway as several nuns came crowding in. Paris was full, and it was by no means a retired spot which she had found. ‘Is that why you allowed me in, ma’am?’ A dimple appeared in the faded cheek. "Won't you take these?" For a space he merely stared at her, perhaps wondering if she were real. 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.
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