It arises, I think, from an over developed sense of humour. 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. But not a word to him of
Lady Trafford's absence—mind that. “You seem to have cultivated quite a
jaunty appearance, and you certainly look years younger. She was never able to
trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed
herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love
(and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she
realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he
cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired,
for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the
sawdust in its doll. "
"I'm sorry I mentioned it at all, since it distresses you," returned Winifred; "but,
as I knew my father intended to propose to you, if poor Jack should be respited
—"
"If he should be respited?" repeated Mrs. To tell you the
truth, he spoke to me very seriously upon the subject. ’
A sudden clatter of booted feet sounded in the hall beyond. Why are you so anxious?"
"Oh, if you can't see your way…. It was
instantly burst open, when the horrible stench that issued from it convinced them
that it must be a receptacle for the murdered victims of the thief-taker. ‘Come inside at once, child. Drink this!”
He poured out a glass of wine with a firm hand, and held it to her lips.
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