The two great hotels on their right were still ablaze with lights. However, if I've lost one servant, I've gained another, that's one
comfort. Melusine stepped back a pace, her gaze fixed on the vision
before her. There was a short, red-faced,
resolute youth who inherited an authoritative attitude upon bacteriology from his
father; a Japanese student of unassuming manners who drew beautifully and had
an imperfect knowledge of English; and a dark, unwashed Scotchman with
complicated spectacles, who would come every morning as a sort of volunteer
supplementary demonstrator, look very closely at her work and her, tell her that
her dissections were “fairish,” or “very fairish indeed,” or “high above the
normal female standard,” hover as if for some outbreak of passionate gratitude
and with admiring retrospects that made the facetted spectacles gleam like
diamonds, return to his own place. ’
A sudden clatter of booted feet sounded in the hall beyond. ’
He held his hands out of the way, surrendering his chest for her assault. ”
“Well,” she said, “has there not been some reason for this? The likeness to
Annabel could scarcely have escaped remark. All sorts of considerations come in. Something drew you. A phase of mental activity that men called courage: to summon at will this
energy which barred the ingress of the long cold fingers of fear, which cleared
the throat of stuffiness and kept the glance level and ever forward. "
"By those who've conspired with me?"
"No! by those who've entrapped you! You've long eluded our vigilance; but
we've caught you at last!"
"Damnation!" exclaimed the woollen-draper; "that I should be the dupe of such a
miserable artifice!"
"It's no use lamenting now, Captain! You ought rather to be obliged to us for
allowing you to pay this visit. Wild was formerly an agent to
the Jacobite party, but, on the offer of a bribe from the opposite faction, he
unhesitatingly deserted and betrayed his old employers.
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