The nuns had no regard for the sensibilities of a “lady” and expected Melusine—
for it was her allotted task—to clean and tend the soldier’s wounds even when
they festered. "
"Power o' mercy!" cried Blueskin starting. ’
‘Then why,’ demanded Melusine, ‘did you do it?’
Gerald closed his eyes. “You will come back, won’t you?”
He nodded cheerfully. It was maddening
to be made to feel that he was in any way the inferior of this cool, self-possessed
young woman, whose eyes seemed for a moment to scintillate with scorn. And I am coming to believe the best as well as the most beautiful
friends a man can have are girl friends. Of course, it was ridiculous, this
inclination to assist the fugitive, based as it was upon an intangible university
idea. She hurried with Jack as fast as she could
to the open door to the passage. She
was supposed to be lifeless; but she survived the accident, though she never
regained her strength. She
rose to the fire to stoke it. Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the
dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered
little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed,
in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that
made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount.
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