Harrison Ainsworth
Internationale Bibliothek G M B H Berlin
1922
"Upon my word, friend," said I, "you have almost made me long to try what a
robber I should make. The first was to break a dinner engagement. A very small settlement, mostly natives. You don’t wear a dinner coat with
a flower in your button-hole, or last night’s shirt, or very glossy boots, nor do
you haunt the drawing-room in the evening, or play at being musical. I do not wish to return to Paris. It seemed that
within an instant the Pestilence struck, and she begged me
on her deathbed to shelter you and her grandson for the
rest of your lives, as she could see that even though I was
a ‘demon fiend’ and ‘minor devil’ that I loved you. I
must tell you all about God’s land, this marvellous virgin country, with its silent
forests and dazzling peaks. ‘Melusine was
making herself mistress of them when we met. ”
“WHAT?” said Ann Veronica, startled. “Don’t ask me to tell you all that women can do, all that women can be. ”
He shook his head, and his eyes and the mouth under the black mustache
wrinkled with his smile. I wouldn't keep an apprentice to set my authority at
defiance. "That's it!" cried Wild when Trenchard concluded.
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