“Allow me,” the doctor said, “to give you a word of advice, Miss Pellissier. ”
She tried to think of some altered state of affairs in which these monstrous
limitations would be alleviated, in which women would stand on their own feet
in equal citizenship with men. To
such characters, fine actions are in themselves sufficient. ”
“May I put you in a hansom?” he asked, lifting his stick. “If you cannot listen to me now it must
remain undelivered. Did she suppose him a possible pretender to her daughter’s
hand? The girl—Dorothée, if memory served—was clearly marriageable, but he
imagined most of these unhappy exiles were all but penniless. But I’m always trying to make
things happen. Would there be enough in the
young man's envelope to pay the doctor and the hotel bill—and in the event of
his death, enough to ship the body home? So all things pointed to the happy
circumstance of setting this young fool upon his feet again, of seeing him hence
upon his journey. Nor, he would wager, had the heroic Monsieur Valade, who had rescued
her from that life and brought her to England, taught her in that short time all
that Gerald was certain she knew of men. Besides these plunderers, there
were others with whom the disposal of their pillage necessarily brought them
into contact, and who seldom failed to attend them during their hours of
relaxation and festivity;—to wit, dealers in junk, old rags, and marine stores,
purchasers of prize-money, crimps, and Jew receivers. Posts were offered to all who chose to accept them. “How could I, when your sister sings now at the
‘Unusual’ every night and the name ‘Alcide’ flaunts from every placard in
London?”
“The likeness between us,” she said, “before I began to disfigure myself with
rouge and ill-dressed hair, was remarkable. ‘Assuredly it is locked up.
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