“Yes,” he said, “I shall come. My nerves are shaken. I was always used
to it, and I think it gives quite a tone to an establishment. One or two landladies refused her with an air of
conscious virtue that she found hard to explain. “I think we have,” he answered, gravely, and took her in his arms, and
smoothed her hair from her forehead, and very tenderly kissed her lips. She
had the same sharp nose—which, indeed, only Ann Veronica, of all the family,
had escaped. Then he opened the study door and called
“Mollie!” and returned to assume an attitude of authority on the hearthrug,
before the blue flames and orange glow of the gas fire. ‘But if there is
one, how in the world did this mystery lady of yours know of it?’
‘That, Lucy, is precisely the point that has been exercising my mind,’ Gerald
said, turning his eyes once more to the group of French exiles in the alcove. And then, as she stood
there, with the fragments of the torn canvas at her feet, some even caught upon
her skirt, the door was thrown open, and a girl entered humming a light tune. No sooner did the vehicle turn the corner of this yard, than Quilt became aware,
from the tumultuous sounds that reached his ears, as well as from the flashing of
various lanterns at the door of the round-house, that some disturbance was going
on; and, apprehensive of a rescue, if he drew up in the midst of the mob, he
thought it prudent to come to a halt. It is to take place to-night. \" Diane chirped once again, ever-musical. ’
‘Yes, that is reasonable,’ agreed Melusine, nodding. ’
‘Then you will not be disappointed. ‘And it may interest you to know, mademoiselle, that the
first thing Gerald must needs do on reaching town is to rush off to that convent
of yours to make sure you were safe.
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