Rebellious and resentful, Melusine decided there and then that she would do
exactly that, come what may. God only
knows what I have done, or left undone. To tell you the
truth, he spoke to me very seriously upon the subject. And she’s
pluck to the backbone. It isn’t just one among a number of important things; for her it is the
important thing, and until she knows far more than I know of the facts of life,
how is she to undertake it? So please; if you will, forget that you wrote that
letter, and forgive this answer. ‘I know, Melusine. It was an awful
moment—so awful, that every other feeling except deep interest in the scene
seemed suspended. They are the only happy
women in the Orient. But the young man with the orange tie remained in his place, disputing
whether the body had not something or other which he called its legitimate
claims. ’
‘Captain Roding, sir,’ put in Gerald, adding on a jocular note, ‘Another of the
green whippersnappers you had to contend with some years back. There’s no
family uniting instinct, anyhow; it’s habit and sentiment and material
convenience hold families together after adolescence. Will you take it in to him?”
The young man smiled in a superior manner. She was to have fifteen pounds, and no more.
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