When he found
himself thinking about it, it upset him so that he at once resorted to distraction. She hung about his chair, followed
him to the door, touched his sleeve timidly, all the while striving to pronounce
the words which refused to rise to her tongue. ’ He took the thing from
Melusine’s listless grasp and went on, ‘Now then, what’s all this here argy-bargy
with Pottiswick?’
Melusine opened her eyes and straightened up. ” She smiled. ” There
was never any shortage of bad men to eat, especially with
pestilence and superstition to cover their tracks. . ’
‘That was hardly the impression I got,’ Gerald murmured, remembering
Melusine’s attitude to Leonardo. The disgrace of the leaders of the late Tory administration had strengthened,
rather than injured, their cause. But in the appendix of
the dictionary she had discovered magic names—Hugo, Dumas, Thackeray,
Hawthorne, Lytton. Her heart in her
mouth, she heard his foot scrape on the floorboard and knew from his expression
that Gosse had heard it too.
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