It was a
betrayal of God and her former family, but all in all was
much easier. The cork came out with a loud pop, and Anna could not help wondering how it
must sound to the patient little crowd outside. His initial nervousness had already abated, and it took
some valour to allow himself to become embroiled in Melusine’s crazy schemes. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours. ”
She was in the bedroom by eleven. ’
‘Don’t count on it. Gay, was a stout,
good-looking, good-humoured man, about thirty-six, with a dark complexion, an
oval face, fine black eyes, full of fire and sensibility, and twinkling with roguish
humour—an expression fully borne out by the mouth, which had a very shrewd
and sarcastic curl. So, not
exactly hopefully but earnestly, she returned to the feet of God. Shotbolt, who had in some degree recovered from the
effects of his previous mortification, was thrown into an ecstacy of delight, and
could not sufficiently exult over the prisoner. Maggot's offer may appear, the young man thought fit to
decline it, and, after a few words of well-merited compliment on her
extraordinary prowess, and renewed thanks to Mr. I mean I’m not a good specimen of a woman. His wife met him at the door, and into
her hands he delivered his little charge.
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