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"Perhaps that was it. The effort to maintain
her self-control was almost superhuman. But—it’s one of the things I’ve
just been thinking over. Her patience was waning fast. He won’t have menservants inside the house, and his collection of carriages
is only fit for a museum—where most of his friends ought to be, by-the-bye. After pursuing the fugitive as before related, Jonathan Wild returned to his own
habitation, where he was occupied during the remainder of the night with Quilt
Arnold and Obadiah Lemon in removing everything which, in case of a search,
might tend to criminate him. There was one verse that haunted and mocked
her. ’
‘And where do you propose to go?’ enquired Gerald carefully. But today Melusine’s new-found knowledge put Martha at a disadvantage. Answering him
was agonizing. ’
Gerald frowned in an effort of memory, and then laughed as he recalled one of
the lies she had invented for his benefit. . Her fancy dress, save for
the green-gray stockings, the pseudo-Turkish slippers, and baggy silk trousered
ends natural to a Corsair’s bride, was hidden in a large black-silk-hooded operacloak. For she and this old lady became at once friends.
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