214 < 27 > REVELATION IN THE CORNFIELD “This is my favorite thing. We hide it bravely, but so it is. "I know not—and care not," replied Jack. She drew in a deep breath of the sweet mountain air. You care for me just a little, I know. Sheppard's dress—extremely neat and clean, but simply fashioned, and of the plainest and most unpretending material,—offered nothing assailable; and her demeanour was so humble, and her looks so modest, that—if she had been ill-looking—she might, possibly, have escaped the shafts of malice preparing to be levelled against her. "Not so;" answered Wild. “You understand, then,” he was saying, “you understand?” “I understand,” said Ann Veronica, tear-wet and flushed with a reciprocal passion, but standing up to him with an equality that amazed even herself, “I understand. “Why—it’s—it’s you!” Amazement seemed to dry up the torrents of his speech. 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. Armed, however, with the implement he had so fortunately obtained, he did not despair of success. "O lud! what an exquisite box!" cried Edgeworth Bess. For yonder went the loneliest man in all God's unhappy world. That same adventurousness that had already buoyed her through crises that would have overwhelmed any normally feminine girl with shame and horror now became uppermost again. She is your sister, and God knows I wish her none.
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