’
‘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. An old man and a young girl, the one
as stubbornly offensive as the other. There are boats on the lake and shady depths and
wildernesses of pine-wood. You will
survive, mark my words. Daily contact with actual
human beings all the more inclined her toward the imaginative. He
had had five children at irregular intervals, of whom Ann Veronica was the
youngest, so that as a parent he came to her perhaps a little practised and jaded
and inattentive; and he called her his “little Vee,” and patted her unexpectedly
and disconcertingly, and treated her promiscuously as of any age between eleven
and eight-and-twenty. Her
father was an astute businessman and a hard worker, but
also handsome in the face which had aided partly his
ascension to the Guild. All at once
they came to the top, the faded blue sky overhead, and whichever way he
looked, the horizon, the great rocking circle which hemmed them in. ”
“Then, whoever he may be, he is not Meysey Hill,” Courtlaw said. It is quite a descent from the clouds, isn’t it?”
“I will accept that,” Anna said, “as accounting for the surprise. I have
given up painting. In this way he was able to force back a ponderous bolt from
its socket; and to his unspeakable joy, found that the door instantly yielded.
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