In a flash, Melusine had jumped forward and clamped it to the floor with
one booted foot. “Did you—did you really think that they would take you for a Frenchman?” she
exclaimed. ‘Bête!’
Gerald caught her hand as she pulled it back to deliver another blow. She had,
by the magic of recollection, set the picture of the typhoon between herself and
her table companions: the terrible rollers thundering on the white shore, the
deafening bellow of the wind, the bending and snapping palms, the thatches of
the native huts scattering inland, the blur of sand dust, and those two outcasts
defying the elements. Gianfrancesco became agitated. “Get me some brandy and my bag. So frightful, indeed, were the ravages of this malady, to
which debtors and felons were alike exposed, that its miserable victims were
frequently carried out by cart-loads, and thrown into a pit in the burial-ground of
Christ-church, without ceremony. She had tried
to shift the subject of conversation away from herself and
was even managing successfully until Chen the father
addressed her. "
Sir Rowland, meantime, throw himself on his knees beside his sister, and,
clasping her chilly fingers within his own, besought her forgiveness in the most
passionate terms. Her eyes were fixed upon the ground, the pink
colour coming and going in her cheeks was very delicate and girlish. The major
hailed him with a show of relief. The nuns wore their habit, and said all their offices, and
went about their tasks unobtrusively, relieving the poor and needy and tending
the sick.
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