The terrors and anxieties of the last few
months seemed to have fallen from her, to have passed away like an ugly dream,
dismissed with a shudder even from the memory. ‘Now then,
missie, where do you think you’re going?’
‘I must see Jacques only for one little minute,’ Melusine told him prettily,
fluttering her lashes. "And what do you suppose we mean
to do with you, eh?"
"You mean to kill me," replied Thames, "by my cruel uncle's command. As she talked she made weak
little gestures with her hands, and she thrust her face forward from her bent
shoulders; and she peered sometimes at Ann Veronica and sometimes at a
photograph of the Axenstrasse, near Fluelen, that hung upon the wall. She had called the police on them
anonymously. Somewhere in the world there was a book clerk with a discerning
mind; for he had given her the best he had. ”
“Then, whoever he may be, he is not Meysey Hill,” Courtlaw said. "
Roused by this reflection, filled with the deepest anxiety for his mother, and
burning to be avenged upon Jonathan Wild, he grasped the iron bar, which, when
he sat down, he had laid upon his knees, and stepped quickly across the room. A strange betrothal!—the primal idea of which was escape! The girl, intent upon
abrogating for ever all legal rights of the father in the daughter, of rendering
innocuous the thing she had now named the Terror: the boy, seeking selfcrucifixion in expiation of his transgression, changing a peccadillo into
damnation!
It was easy for Ruth to surrender to the idea, for she believed she was loved; and
in gratitude it was already her determination to give this boy her heart's blood,
drop by drop, if he wanted it. E. Undraw the
curtain, love," she added to Thames, "that I may look at you.
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