He ushered them with an amiable flat hand into a minute
apartment with a little gas-stove, a silk crimson-covered sofa, and a bright little
table, gay with napery and hot-house flowers. ’
‘I do not care any more about the portrait,’ Melusine said, opening the door to
the attic corridor that gave off onto the row of little rooms that served as private
cells for the senior nuns. I’ve had enough of it. He sat before a desk littered all over with papers
and official looking documents. Incursions were often made upon its territories
by the functionaries of the law; sometimes attended with success, but more
frequently with discomfiture; and it rarely happened, unless by stratagem or
bribery, that (in the language of the gentlemen of the short staff) an important
caption could be effected. Assessing him as harmless, she had
remained friendly, albeit aloof. ’
‘Was it?’ Her lips twitched. He was pretty successful in Manchester,—a town which
may be said to have been the head-quarters of the disaffected. Come every day to see you was flourishing.
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