‘I am Major Gerald Alderley of the West Kent Militia. Here was an appalling fact: all her previous loneliness had been trifling beside that which now encompassed her and would for years to come. If nothing else had clinched that, the purse had. They slow danced to a Bon Jovi ballad. At one time, she determined to go to Wych Street, and ask Mr. But she was disturbed, mysteriously disturbed. 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. The hangman is always an object of peculiar detestation to the mob, a tremendous hooting hailed his appearance, and both staves and swords were required to preserve order. Words were given with their original meaning, without their ramifications.
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