“It has been very kind of you to see me, but I don’t want to sit and talk
and use your time any longer. When at first she had realized that he
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had conducted a sexual affair with a local well-known
Florentine courtesan she called him out, accusing him of
exposing her to an array of diseases. Wood, who had
been absent on business during the greater part of the day, returned (perhaps not
altogether undesignedly) at an earlier hour than was expected, to his dwelling in
Wych Street, Drury Lane; and was about to enter his workshop, when, not
hearing any sound of labour issue from within, he began to suspect that an
apprentice, of whose habits of industry he entertained some doubt, was
neglecting his employment. “I can only be a few years older
than you, and I have been married four years. You can’t go. Some Chinaman might take it into his head to shout:
"Death to the foreign devils!" And out of that wall yonder would boil battle and
murder and sudden death. ‘Marry an Englishman! Which Englishman?’
Melusine shrugged. Sheppard. My natural parents both died a very long time ago and I
have been on my own for a great deal of my existence. To tell someone who is kind and who will
understand!"
"There, there!" he said. She resolved
not to allow him or her hunger detract from the
performance at hand, as it would be a special one, an
evening to be remembered in the gray days to follow like
a precious jewel. She was only trying to distract you so that she might escape. ’
‘And she’d be right,’ Martha said severely.
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