Kneebone, having been alarmed by something in the widow's
look before her feelings found vent in the manner above described, thrust his
hand instinctively into his coat in search of his pocket-book,—about the security
of which, as it contained several letters and documents implicating himself and
others in the Jacobite plot, he was, not unnaturally, solicitous,—and finding it
gone, he felt certain he had been robbed. Pah! Damned Frenchified—’
‘If you say again,’ threatened Melusine, moving to meet him like a jungle cat
poised for the kill, ‘this scorn of a thing French, monsieur le baron, I shall be
compelled to give you this apoplexy of which she speaks, madame. "No," replied Jonathan, moodily. The lines about his mouth gradually
softened. Over the mantel, set
into an ornately carved panel with fluted columns at each end, was a portrait of a
man on horseback. "Heaven grant you may have been wrongly informed with respect to Thames!"
exclaimed Winifred; "but, I beseech you, on no account to mention what you
have told me to my poor father.
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