She tried surreptitiously to
reach her own dagger, in its cunning hiding place in her petticoat. In the beginning Ah Cum would run his glance speculatively over the assortment
and select that individual who promised to be the most companionable. Fortescue had not much ability to keep her sister, and a
little while after her mother’s death Ann Veronica met Gwen suddenly on the
staircase coming from her father’s study, shockingly dingy in dusty mourning
and tearful and resentful, and after that Gwen receded from the Morningside
Park world, and not even the begging letters and distressful communications that
her father and aunt received, but only a vague intimation of dreadfulness, a
leakage of incidental comment, flashes of paternal anger at “that blackguard,”
came to Ann Veronica’s ears. “Why don’t you wear your white blouse more often? It
is the prettiest shirt you own. ’
Chapter Six
Creeping along the dark narrow passage, with lantern held well ahead to keep
her step steady on the uneven stones—and to warn her of the advent of rats—
Melusine kept her long petticoats fastidiously clear of the dirt with an efficient
hand, a habit she had learned in the convent. 277
“I was beginning to think that I would never see you
again, Lucy. Spurling, and her now accepted suitor, resumed their seats. Sheppard. Whether they are loved or
unloved has no bearing upon this desire to test their wings, to try this new
adventure, to take this leap into the dark. Sepulchre's bell is for ever ringing in my ears—oh!"
"If that's the case," observed Wood, "I'm surprised you should like to have such a
frightful picture constantly in view as that over the chimney-piece. "
"I was sure you wouldn't injure me, Captain," remarked Quilt, in a wheedling
tone, while he felt about for his sword; "you're far too brave to strike a fallen
man. She would take this one back with her.
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