? ? ? ? 'That is a black shadow to be following the girl,' said Steerforth, standing still; 'what does it mean?'
? ? ? ? He spoke in a low voice that sounded almost strange to Me.
? ? ? ? 'She must have it in her mind to beg of them, I think,' said I.
? ? ? ? 'A beggar would be no novelty,' said Steerforth; 'but it is a strange thing that the beggar should take that shape tonight.'
? ? ? ? 'Why?' I asked.
? ? ? ? 'For no better reason, truly, than because I was thinking,' he said, after a pause, 'of something like it, when it came by. Where the Devil did it come from, I wonder!'
? ? ? ? 'From the shadow of this wall, I think,' said I, as we emerged upon a road on which a wall abutted.
? ? ? ? 'It's gone!' he returned, looking over his shoulder. 'And all ill go with it. Now for our dinner!'
? ? ? ? But he looked again over his shoulder towards the sea-line glimmering afar off, and yet again.
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