“Of course he may merely have been telling her who we were, but I
think it improbable. “I believe,” he said, “that you mean me to be Prime Minister. "
"Zounds! David Pugh, don't you know your old friend and countryman?"
exclaimed the carpenter. "No bones broken, I hope," said Thames, laughing at Jack, who limped towards
the bench, rubbing his shins as he went. In Singapore that had been her only dissipation: a dozen pairs of silk
stockings. And in these crowded four weeks,
what had she learned? That all horizons were lies: that smiles and handshakes
and goodbyes and welcomes were lies: that there were really no to-morrows,
only a treadmill of to-days: and that out of these lies and mirages she had
plucked a bitter truth—she was alone. 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. “I don’t
know how to prove myself to you, John.
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