” She commanded him in a low
tone. She had a gold watch, a
very good gold watch that had been her mother’s, a pearl necklace that was also
pretty good, some unpretending rings, some silver bangles and a few other such
inferior trinkets, three pounds thirteen shillings unspent of her dress and book
allowance and a few good salable books. In Singapore that had been her only dissipation: a dozen pairs of silk
stockings. This person, whose age might be about forty,
was attired in a brown double-breasted frieze coat, with very wide skirts, and a
very narrow collar; a light drugget waistcoat, with pockets reaching to the knees;
black plush breeches; grey worsted hose; and shoes with round toes, wooden
heels, and high quarters, fastened by small silver buckles. She got home every night in time to cook supper and it
was good money. ’
Melusine remembered a thin man of sour aspect, living—like her father and
his wife Suzanne—off the vicomte’s bounty.
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