He warned her that it drove
most men mad and that the process for choosing another
to become a vampire was lengthy and protracted with
good reason. "
"Nor I," returned Ireton, following his example: "and I've had some experience
too. She could not be more than twenty; and though want and other
suffering had done the work of time, had wasted her frame, and robbed her
cheek of its bloom and roundness, they had not extinguished the lustre of her
eyes, nor thinned her raven hair. He has a heart that is easily
broken. I was afraid of being talked
about. ”
She looked up at him quickly. "You shall
have the sum you require, but——"
"But what, Madam!"
"Do not misunderstand me," she proceeded. She seemed honestly glad to see him. ”
“I can’t seem to get out of chairs without flashing my
brassiere to the whole of Creation. Nor as I’ve to put up with a French spy in
my parlour—’
‘Peste, how you talk,’ interrupted Melusine impatiently, barely taking in his
complaints. ‘But you know everything now,’ protested Hilary, keeping pace as Gerald took
the stairs two at a time. It will do its best to
overlook things—”
“If we let it, poor dear. Coarse as were the ruffian's notions of feminine beauty, he
could not be insensible to the surpassing loveliness of the fair creature, who had
thus solicited his attention. After all, what did it matter?—it or anything else in the world? She was
within reach of his arms, beautiful, compelling, herself as it seemed suddenly
conscious of the light which was burning in his eyes.
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