“Why destroy me, child? There are so many secrets I
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could tell you. But we were both
pledged to secrecy, and I couldn’t reveal my part for fear that I would lose my
place. ”
He made a step toward her. Only I
wish that it did not remind one so much of a second-hand clothes shop. ” He shook her diminutive hand. Hurrying in the direction of
the supposed arrest, they encouraged each other with shouts, and threatened the
offending parties with their vengeance. "But
if it is thy will to take me from him," she continued, as soon as her emotion
permitted her,—"if he must be left an orphan amid strangers, implant, I beseech
thee, a mother's feelings in some other bosom, and raise up a friend, who shall be
to him what I would have been. The program was to include a Bach cantata,
her favorite piece from Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade,
and for the first time ever, a student composition, a
Concerto, by a precociously talented fellow student
named Martin Chen. ’
Chapter Six
Creeping along the dark narrow passage, with lantern held well ahead to keep
her step steady on the uneven stones—and to warn her of the advent of rats—
Melusine kept her long petticoats fastidiously clear of the dirt with an efficient
hand, a habit she had learned in the convent.
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