Tales and sketches Author:Catharine Maria Sedgwick Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: stimulated by the desire to escape observation, he got into it with steadiness, and told the man to drive him to Cherry-street. He was soon out of sight, and for... more »gotten by all but Stanley Gretton. LIGHTS AND SHADOWS. . " We will not mar the scene—we will not look To the veil'd future or the shadowy past." . , The good ship that bore home Grace Harvey, her brothers, aunt, and Augustine Clavers, arrived after thirty-five days' passage, and was telegraphed two hours before the passengers landed at Whitehall. Mr. Harvey's carriage was awaiting them; he, with Stanley, stood on the wharf, while Mary Gretton, who had been left in the carriage, too restless to remain there, had joined a friend whom she luckily espied, and was walking to and fro on the Battery. At every turn she paused to look at the little steamer that was bringing her cousin from the ship ; in all her wide horizon she saw nothing but that. Her friend, not so engrossed, said, " Mary, Mary ! do look at this old man at our right: what a spectre of a man it is! he is as much absorbed in the steamer as you are. I have no doubt he expects a cousin, or something nearer. I'll ask him." " Anne !" Mary's remonstrative tone nad no effect. Her lively friend turned to the old man, saying," I am sure you have a relation in that steamer, have you not?" He raised his eyes to the speaker, and they looked from 'the dark hollows of his pale and withered countenance like burning coals amid ashes; 'he' did not reply, but, drawing his hat closer, removed a few paces from them. " How very like !" exclaimed Mary. " Like-like what ? I am sure I never in my life saw anything like him." " Nor I; but he is so like a description Stanley gave me of a strange old man—but oh, Anne, the steamer seems really coming now; come with me ...« less