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What do you suppose he meant? Masr Davy, he replied, Ive put the question to myself a mort o times, and never found no answer. And theers one curous thingthat, though he is so pleasant, I wouldnt fare to feel comfortable to try and get his mind upont. He never said a wured to me as warnt as dootiful as dootiful could be, and it aint likely as hed begin to speak any other ways now; but its fur from being fleet water in his mind, where them thowts lays. Its deep, Sir, and I cant see down. You are right, said I, and that has sometimes made me anxious. And me too, Masr Davy, he rejoined. Even more so, I do assure you, than his ventersome ways, though both belongs to the alteration in him. I doent know as hed do violence under any circumstances, but I hope as them two may be kep asunders. We had come, through Temple Bar, into the City. Conversing no more now, and walking at my side, he yielded himself up to the one aim of his devoted life, and went on, with that hushed concentration of his faculties which would have made his figure solitary in a multitude. We were not far from Blackfriars Bridge, when he turned his head and pointed to a solitary female figure flitting along the opposite side of the street. I knew it, readily, to be the figure that we sought. We crossed the road, and were pressing on towards her, when it occurred to me that she might be more disposed to feel a womans interest in the lost girl, if we spoke to her in a quieter place, aloof from the crowd, and where we should be less observed. I advised my companion, therefore, that we should not address her yet, but follow her; consulting in this, likewise, an indistinct desire I had to know where she went. He acquiescing, we followed at a distance: never losing sight of her, but never caring to come very near, as she frequently looked about. Once, she stopped to listen to a band of music; and then we stopped too. She went on a long way. Still we went on. It was evident, from the manner in which she held her course, that she was going to some fixed destination; and this, and her keeping in the busy streets, and, I suppose, the strange fascination in the secrecy and mystery of so following any one, made me adhere to my first purpose. At length she turned into a dull, dark street, where the noise and crowd were lost; and I said, We may speak to her now; and, mending our pace, we went after her. |
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