There was still a light in the window of Marjory's room: one little oblong patch of orange in a world of dark blue hills and silver starlight.

Will's mind ran a great deal on the window; but his thoughts were not very lover-like.

'There she is in her room,' he thought, 'and there are the stars overhead:--a blessing upon both!' Both were good influences in his life; both soothed and braced him in his profound contentment with the world.

And what more should he desire with either?
The fat young man and his councils were so present to his mind, that he threw back his head, and, putting his hands before his mouth, shouted aloud to the populous heavens.

Whether from the position of his head or the sudden strain of the exertion, he seemed to see a momentary shock among the stars, and a diffusion of frosty light pass from one to another along the sky.