The vestry was perhaps the only room in the place, except her allotted
curtained off portion of the dormitory chamber that served for her cell—and she
could not scandalise the nuns by having a man in there, be he never so much a
servant—where Melusine could be sure of privacy. But the besetting evil of the place, and that which drew down the
severest censures of the writers above-mentioned, was that this spot,—which of
all others should have been most free from such intrusion—was made a public
exhibition. Bulging out more in the
middle than at the two extremities, it resembled an enormous cask set on its end,
—a sort of Heidelberg tun on a large scale,—and this resemblance was increased
by the small circular aperture—it hardly deserved to be called a door—pierced,
like the bung-hole of a barrell, through the side of the structure, at some distance
from the ground, and approached by a flight of wooden steps. " The mortal agony behind those eyes! And all the while he had
probably loved his child. Sewn on that button yet?"
"I've been afraid to take the coat from under the pillow. He returned, blue towel in hand. Then a light seemed to
break in upon him. The fact itself
is regrettable enough—regrettable, I fear, is quite an inadequate word. Now what? There was an interest, or why ask
him who they were. One learns to sit up. "I opened the padlock with this crooked
nail, which I found in the floor. Her little bedsitting-room was like a lair, and she went out from it into this vast, dun world,
with its smoke-gray houses, its glaring streets of shops, its dark streets of homes,
its orange-lit windows, under skies of dull copper or muddy gray or black, much
as an animal goes out to seek food. She visualized him as in a policeman’s
uniform and quite impassive. You understand. If only out of loyalty to co-education one has to
do that.
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