‘You must have been an exceedingly
good pupil. “I’d never have a day of peace again, John. The police are concerned in it in either event. Wood, despair will come over me; and, dear as this babe is to me, far dearer
than my own wretched life, which I would lay down for him any minute, I have
prayed to Heaven to remove him, rather than he should grow up to be a man, and
be exposed to his father's temptations—rather than he should live as wickedly
and die as disgracefully as his father. In fact, one of them was
downright sceptical. "I leave this bowl for you," he cried, returning it to the landlord untasted. Moving swiftly to the end of the corridor, he pushed
open a door at random and entered a large room, which looked to have been a
saloon, judging from the faded gilt and crimson wall-paper, a mirror above the
fireplace which was surrounded by an ornate gilded frame, now sadly tarnished,
and a worn Chippendale sofa with striped upholstery and tasselled cushions. Don’t stand gawping, man. ’
Of which Melusine was only too well aware, for her stepmother had done
nothing to save her from the convent. “You had only to
ask——”
“Do you think,” Anna interrupted, with a note of passion trembling also in her
tone, “that I would have taken alms from Sir John, the man to whom I had lied
for your sake. He returned figuratively to his bed—the
bed he had made for himself and in which he must for ever lie. "How so?" asked Wild, curiously. E.
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