ALL ALONG THE RIVER A Novel BY THE AUTHOR OF “ISHMAEL,” “VIXEN,” “LADY AUDLEY’S SECRET,” “THE VENETIANS,” Etc. Stereotyped Edition LONDON SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT & CO. LIMITED STATIONERS’ HALL COURT [_All rights reserved_] LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. “The Rain set early in To-night” 1 II. “But the Days drop One by One” 18 III. “Oh Moment One and Infinite!” 33 IV. “Dreaming, she knew it was a Dream” 50 V. “And the Child-cheek blushing Scarlet for the very Shame of Bliss” 61 VI. “A Love still burning upward” 73 VII. “Look through mine Eyes with thine, True Wife” 91 VIII. My Frolic Falcon, with Bright Eyes 99 IX. “Lies Nothing buried long ago?” 114 X. “Of the Weak my Heart is Weakest” 124 XI. “Where the Cold Sea raves” 142 XII. “Far, too far off for Thought or any Prayer” 153 XIII. “Under the Pine-wood, Blind with Boughs” 159 XIV. “Say the False Charge was True” 169 XV. “My Life continues yours, and your Life mine” 186 XVI. “Sorrow that’s Deeper than we dream, perchance” 197 XVII. “The Year of the Rose is Brief” 202 XVIII. “No Sudden Fancy of an Ardent Boy” 207 XIX. “I have you still, the Sun comes out again” 222 XX. “Thou Paradise of Exiles, Italy” 230 XXI. “The Woods are round us, Heaped and Dim” 241 XXII. Ecco Roma 248 XXIII. “Seek Shelter in the Shadow of the Tomb” 255 XXIV. “Oh, Old Thoughts they cling, they cling!” 267 XXV. “We’ll bind you Fast in Silken Cords” 273 XXVI. “So, Full Content shall henceforth be my Lot” 282 XXVII. “Gone Deeper than all Plummets sound” 292 XXVIII. “Though Love and Life and Death should come and go” 301 XXIX. “I, you, and God can comprehend each other” 318 ALL ALONG THE RIVER. CHAPTER I. “THE RAIN SET EARLY IN TO-NIGHT.” It had been raining all the morning, and it was raining still, in that feeble and desultory manner which presages a change of some kind, when the postman came with the long-expected Indian letter.