33 <5> LUCY MAKES A FRIEND English class was a sleepy affair, made sleepier by the fact that the school year was drawing to a close. "To those who, like me, have never been able to get out of the dark and dreary paths of life, the grave is indeed a refuge, and the sooner they reach it the better. “You are afraid,” she said, “that the young man who thinks that he is my husband has upset me. Finally she decided upon a step that had always seemed reasonable to her, but that hitherto she had, from motives too faint for her to formulate, refrained from taking. Ann Veronica sat firelit by her tea-tray with, quite unconsciously, the air of an expert hostess. She had been fighting down this thought for days: that Hoddy did not care, that he did not love her, that he had mistaken a vagary of the mind for a substance, and now regretted what he had done— married a girl who was not his equal in anything. Then he did give way a bit. Its importance had vanished with her abandonment of compromise. ’ Melusine gasped. ” She said. “I have stood it for a month, Anna,” he exclaimed. 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. You’re the only person I’ve really given good, straight, unselfish thought to.
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