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She felt a mixture of embarrassment, humiliation, and
pride well up in her cheeks, flushing them. She paced restlessly to the door
and back again, biting her tongue on the hot words begging to be uttered. Her
stifled misery had betrayed her. "It is too late. "You will make me the happiest of mankind," cried the woollen-draper, falling
on his knees, and seizing her hand, which he devoured with kisses. "
"Well, well, since you desire it, I'll say no more," returned Wood. For a time he and Miss Klegg contradicted one another. ‘Ah, there is the little menace itself,’ he drawled, recovering some of his own
sangfroid. How I envied Gianfrancesco on his
wedding night, how I writhed in agony just thinking
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about his intimacies with you! Then you became
pregnant, and there he was, posturing and gloating like
the rest of the family, my divinations of a boy in your
womb pronounced. You
could walk the city streets and with every blink you could
take in a new sight of beauty so great that your heart
would weep for it. She visited the corner that had been her own
little garden—her forget-me-nots and candytuft had long since been elbowed
into insignificance by weeds; she visited the raspberry-canes that had sheltered
that first love affair with the little boy in velvet, and the greenhouse where she
had been wont to read her secret letters. "It's more than I am," muttered Thames. ‘Then he went stark staring crazy, if you ask me. You never
can tell. It is known that I
am Melusine Charvill, which is also my right.
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