Having disposed of his steed and
swallowed a glass of brandy, without taking any other refreshment, he threw
himself on a couch, where he sank at once into a heavy slumber. "And when I further tell you," continued Jack, "that, after yourself and my
mother, I am the next heir to the estates of my grandfather, Sir Montacute
Trenchard, you will perhaps own that my caution is sufficiently disinterested. When she got home to her lodgings that evening she reflected with something
like surprise upon her half-day’s employment, and decided that it showed
nothing more nor less than that Capes was a really very interesting person
indeed. Perhaps Ferringhall has pensioned her off. "I have killed her," cried Jack. “He sees through it all. ’
‘Then you will not be disappointed. ‘For that, I must conceal that I also have enjoyed the kiss. ’
‘Then why,’ demanded Melusine, ‘did you do it?’
Gerald closed his eyes. “Let me introduce you to Caesar,” he said; and she
patted Caesar’s neck, and remarked how soft his nose was, and secretly deplored
the ugliness of equine teeth. Jack appealed to the new auditors, and again detailed his story, but with no
better success than heretofore. Nevertheless, she could not prevent a rising excitement as the dawn of the
new life drew near to her—a thrilling of the nerves, a secret and delicious
exaltation above the common circumstances of existence.
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