Besides—there
is Sir John. . ’ His finger came out and Melusine felt it stroke her cheek. “See you to-night, I suppose?”
He sauntered off. Her courage and her presence of mind had alike deserted her. And ever after it struck him that her backward smile as
she disappeared was charged with some special significance. We’re hedged about with discretions—
and all this furniture—and successes! We are successful at last! Successful! But
the mountains, dear! We won’t forget the mountains, dear, ever. He had often read about it, and once he had incorporated
it in a story, that invisible force which sent men to prison and to the gallows,
when a tongue controlled would have meant liberty indefinite. "There!" she cried, laughing, "that'll teach you to lay hands upon me again. "
"What did I forget?"
"The breathless days and the faded, pitiless sky. Do you remember when we went right away, Nigel, and forgot
everything? We went down the river past Veraz, and the larks were singing all
over those deep brown fields, and the river further on wound its way like a coil
of silver across the rich meadowland, and along the hillside vineyards. She had come across the
wicked South Seas which were still infested with cannibals; she had seen
drunkenness and called men beachcombers; who was this moment as innocent as
a babe, and in the next uttered some bitter wisdom it had taken a thousand years
of philosophy to evolve.
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