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CHAPTER VI.We stood there, two creatures, quite alone onthe edge of the river. There must have beenpeople near,but there were none in sight;theboats rocked onthelittle waves;the heavymassesof the trees wereblack;breadths of silveryhghtrippled under the arches;from the convent ofthe Franciscans on the island,there came distantsounds of chanting;the fidl moon hung abovethe pines of Pamfili. She remained kneeling :■herhead bowedclownbetweenher hands. Greatsobs shook allher frame.It was so still; there might have been onlyin the city, the ghostly world of all its deadmultitudes, it was so still. At lastIgrewfrightened, seeing her thus upon the stones, so-