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Quilt Arnold was
stationed at the stair-head, near which the boat containing the captive boy was
moored. ’
‘You see? Not to be trusted,’ Hilary uttered disgustedly. ‘You don’t believe her?’
‘My dear Major Alderley, I do not know her,’ Mrs Sindlesham pointed out. "Come to my arms,
Thames! Oh! dear! Oh! dear!"
To repeat the questions and congratulations which now ensued, or describe the
extravagant joy of the carpenter, who, after he had hugged his adopted son to his
breast with such warmth as almost to squeeze the breath from his body, capered
around the room, threw his wig into the empty fire-grate, and committed various
other fantastic actions, in order to get rid of his superfluous satisfaction—to
describe the scarcely less extravagant raptures of his spouse, or the more
subdued, but not less heartfelt delight of Winifred, would be a needless task, as it
must occur to every one's imagination. "
Sir Rowland looked at her for a moment, as if he meditated some terrible reply. A wave of pity went over him—pity for the patient, the girl, and his friend. Here they were regaled with another
plentiful meal by the hospitable carpenter, who personally superintended the
repast. It was maddening
to be made to feel that he was in any way the inferior of this cool, self-possessed
young woman, whose eyes seemed for a moment to scintillate with scorn. If ever I did meet a man I could
love, I should love him”—her voice dropped again—“platonically. Sheppard, struggling to escape, and holding the infant
at arm's length; "have mercy on this helpless innocent!"
And the child, alarmed by the strife, added its feeble cries to its mother's shrieks. The young man had knocked over the siphon. Melusine—the real Melusine—evidently did not see him immediately, for her
attention was on her descent from the high vehicle.
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