"
This seemed to turn away all suspicion, the soldiers left them, and
no further mischance occurred. At night, just as the young moon was
setting, the boat was brought out, and Harry, with little Dick and a
comrade whom he engaged could be trusted, prepared their oars. At
the same time, Dr. Bathurst and Rose came silently to meet them along
the shingly beach. Rose hardly knew her brother in his fisherman's
garb. The time was short, and their hearts were too full for many
words, as that little party stood together in the light of the
crescent moon, the sea sounding with a low constant ripple, spread
out in the grey hazy blue distance, and here and there the crests of
the nearer waves swelling up and catching the moonlight.
Edmund and his sister held their hands tightly clasped, loving each
other, if possible, better than ever. He now and then repeated some
loving greeting which she was to bear home; and she tried to restrain
her tears, at the separation she was forced to rejoice in, a parting
which gave no augury of meeting again, the renewal of an exile from
which there was no present hope of return. Harry looked at Dr.
Bathurst to intimate it was time to be gone. The clergyman came
close to the brother and sister, and instead of speaking his own
words, used these:-
"Turn our captivity, O LORD, as the rivers in the south.
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