It is one
of God’s laws that a woman may defend her honour, even with the shedding of
blood. This niggardliness compelled him to cross and recross
streets. 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 must not remain here," he said. "
"And who is its mother?" asked Jonathan, in an eager whisper. Let me walk you to the door. But her husband, whose deportment to
her was considerably changed since the fatal knot had been tied, paid no
attention whatever to her grief.
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