B. My concept of the reluctant vampire sprung from a
rabid obsession with medieval history, especially the
pre-Renaissance era of the Black Plague. And the less “anything” happened the better. The
watermen, who manned the larger wherry, immediately shipped their oars,
grappled with the drifting skiff, and held it fast. ’
‘Yes, and it seems to me a very strange thing that he interferes all the time in
my affairs when I do not want him to do so,’ Melusine said aggrievedly, ‘and the
very first time that I wish him in truth to rescue me, he is not there. Got the tickets? Yes, but then—you said you borrowed?”
“I did, too,” said Ann Veronica. I hope you will always remember——”
Annabel held out her hands with a little cry of protest. It was impossible. It must have cut him. She was a small blonde, not handsome, but with a flair for fashion
demonstrated by her elegant chemise gown in the very latest Canterbury muslin,
with its low décolletage barely concealed under a fine lawn handkerchief set
about her shoulders, and decorated with a mauve satin sash at the waist. 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. ”
The tired woman sat still for a moment.
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