’
‘You mean monsieur le baron, the General Charvill, my grandfather?’
Melusine laid aside on the table the letter she had been studying and turned so
that the frame of her nun’s wimple no longer obscured her view. ” He stroked
her hand gently. “Yes. Don’t
touch the handle, Annabel! Curse the thing, you’ve jammed it now. “It has all been a
mistake, hasn’t it?”
“No more talking,” the doctor interposed. Supposing they find you
and take you away?—and she unprepared? Have you thought of that? Why did
you marry her?"
"God alone knows!"
"And you don't love her! What kind of a woman do you want, anyhow?"—with
rising anger. But this plan
(probably from its danger) was instantly abandoned; not, however, before her
momentary hesitation had been taken advantage of by her pursuers, who,
redoubling their efforts at this juncture, materially lessened the distance between
them. Accordingly, the old knight reduced his
son's allowance to a third of its previous amount; and, upon further provocation,
he even went so far as to alter his will in favour of his daughter, Aliva, who was
then betrothed to her cousin, Sir Cecil Trafford. “I don’t think our engagement can go on,” she plunged, and felt exactly that
loss of breath that comes with a dive into icy water.
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