” He spoke a little
nervously. Do look at this tragedy in
mauve, who has just come in. For an instant,
Melusine watched him go. "There's an old proverb," continued Wood, rising and walking towards the fire,
"which says,—'Put another man's child in your bosom, and he'll creep out at
your elbow. Perhaps," she added, in a whisper, as she appropriated the beforenamed article, "he has a pocket-book. When he comes he will do that raid of the pantechnicons
the justice it deserves; he will picture the orderly evening scene about the
Imperial Legislature in convincing detail, the coming and going of cabs and
motor-cabs and broughams through the chill, damp evening into New Palace
Yard, the reinforced but untroubled and unsuspecting police about the entries of
those great buildings whose square and panelled Victorian Gothic streams up
from the glare of the lamps into the murkiness of the night; Big Ben shining
overhead, an unassailable beacon, and the incidental traffic of Westminster, cabs,
carts, and glowing omnibuses going to and from the bridge. "
"Of course—of course," returned Wood, hastily; "anything's better than that. But never mind that,"
said McClintock grinning as he drew the dish of bread-fruit toward him. ’
‘Pottiswick, you mean, miss?’
‘Yes, yes. “I’ll go,” she vowed to the night,
“or I’ll die!” She made plans and estimated means and resources. “Absolutely platonically,” she said. "I disbelieve the whole story you have told me.
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