"It's Jonathan Wild come back with a troop of constables at his heels, to search
the house," rejoined Mrs. “Why won’t you sleep in my bed tonight, Lucia, where
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it’s warm?” He asked her one night, teasing but
mournful, as she stood in her bedroom doorway in a long
white gown. The delight of the turnkeys was beyond all
bounds; but poor Mrs. ’
‘Why should I?’
‘Because I can’t live without you!’
‘That is your own affair, and—’
Melusine broke off, staring at him, shocked realisation kicking in her gut. Sheppard's dress—extremely
neat and clean, but simply fashioned, and of the plainest and most unpretending
material,—offered nothing assailable; and her demeanour was so humble, and
her looks so modest, that—if she had been ill-looking—she might, possibly,
have escaped the shafts of malice preparing to be levelled against her. She became more and more alive, not
so much to a system of ideas as to a big diffused impulse toward change, to a
great discontent with and criticism of life as it is lived, to a clamorous confusion
of ideas for reconstruction—reconstruction of the methods of business, of
economic development, of the rules of property, of the status of children, of the
clothing and feeding and teaching of every one; she developed a quite
exaggerated consciousness of a multitude of people going about the swarming
spaces of London with their minds full, their talk and gestures full, their very
clothing charged with the suggestion of the urgency of this pervasive project of
alteration. But never had the hand touched her with a father's caress;
never had he taken her into his arms; never had he kissed her. She looked paler than ever; but her countenance, though bewildered, did not
exhibit the alarm which might naturally have been anticipated from the strange
and perplexing scene presented to her view.
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