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Chapter 7 Better to Be Abel than Cain
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Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir1 Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was not the light of night. The moon had gone down, and a mist crept along the banks of the river, seen through which the trees were the ghosts of trees, and the water was the ghost of water. This earth looked spectral2, and so did the pale stars: while the cold eastern glare, expressionless as to heat or colour, with the eye of the firmament3 quenched4, might have been likened to the stare of the dead.
Perhaps it was so likened by the lonely Bargeman, standing6 on the brink7 of the lock. For certain, Bradley Headstone looked that way, when a chill air came up, and when it passed on murmuring, as if it whispered something that made the phantom8 trees and water tremble — or threaten — for fancy might have made it either.
He turned away, and tried the Lock-house door. It was fastened on the inside.
‘Is he afraid of me?’ he muttered, knocking.
Rogue9 Riderhood was soon roused, and soon undrew the bolt and let him in.
‘Why, T’otherest, I thought you had been and got lost! Two nights away! I a’most believed as you’d giv’ me the slip, and I had as good as half a mind for to advertise you in the newspapers to come for’ard.’
Bradley’s face turned so dark on this hint, that Riderhood deemed it expedient10 to soften11 it into a compliment.
‘But not you, governor, not you,’ he went on,
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efficiently
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