I
was visiting the royal family, as they sought me for a tutor
for their sons over the summer. Yeah, I’m thirty-seven. And to think that man got it all out of the poorest little love-story for
a respectable titled lady! Have you read of it?”
“Never. ”
“And I also,” Brendon echoed. As he hesitated, unable to make up his mind what to do for the
best, a heavy rumbling on the cobbles penetrated his absorption. "Like master like man," observed Jack as he rolled the inanimate body to the
side of the road. The
benches running round the room, though fastened to the walls by iron clamps,
had been forcibly wrenched off; while the table, which was similarly secured to
the boards, was upset, and its contents—bottles, jugs, glasses, and bowls were
broken and scattered about in all directions. When I have traversed the streets a houseless wanderer,
driven with curses from every door where I have solicited alms, and with blows
from every gateway where I have sought shelter,—when I have crept into some
deserted building, and stretched my wearied limbs upon a bulk, in the vain hope
of repose,—or, worse than all, when, frenzied with want, I have yielded to
horrible temptation, and earned a meal in the only way I could earn one,—when
I have felt, at times like these, my heart sink within me, I have drank of this
drink, and have at once forgotten my cares, my poverty, my guilt. Whilst she was wondering
how to frame her request for an advance, Mr. John, he was
between me and the door. And she was as shrewd as
they come. He would see this sister. ’
The reference to Major Alderley’s wounds reminded Melusine all at once of
the fight they’d had, and its consequence.
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