"Ay, murder him, if you like the term," returned Wild. He had brought her here to
this place—where her freedom was curtailed even more than at the convent so
that a cavalier was very much needed—and only on Monday came again. ”
Like most men who lie but seldom, he lied well. “And yet in a very few weeks I shall have done
with it all. His attention was focused on Melusine’s transfixed stare and he forgot to say any
of the things he had planned to say. ”
Her father’s irony deepened. When I have traversed the streets a houseless wanderer,
driven with curses from every door where I have solicited alms, and with blows
from every gateway where I have sought shelter,—when I have crept into some
deserted building, and stretched my wearied limbs upon a bulk, in the vain hope
of repose,—or, worse than all, when, frenzied with want, I have yielded to
horrible temptation, and earned a meal in the only way I could earn one,—when
I have felt, at times like these, my heart sink within me, I have drank of this
drink, and have at once forgotten my cares, my poverty, my guilt. Apparently he thought it very much worth while. Those
were great tricks that you pulled with the car and the
glass, but why shouldn’t I believe that this has all been an
elaborate hoax?” He asked. “You must tell me the truth, and I will see
that no harm comes to you. ”
Sir John frowned. He
entered the driver’s side, not inserting the keys in the
ignition.
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