"This is very fine of you, Miss…. We'll lather him with mud, shave him
with a rusty razor, and drench him with aqua pompaginis. The mortal youth in him, then, was fascinated, the thinker, the poet;
from all sides Ruth attacked him, innocently. ’
‘Lucilla,’ gasped Hilary, his cheeks reddening with wrath. He left his companion in the midst of a glowing eulogy
of Bastien Leparge, and boldly intercepted his hostess as she moved from one
group to join another. Some foul murder
has been committed. ’
***
It must have been fate, Gerald decided, near an hour later, staring intently at the
closed French windows on the raised alcove that led out to the terrace. "Well, that beats all I ever heard of!" roared Blueskin. Fortescue rambled
round the garden with soft, propitiatory steps, the Corinthian nose upraised and
his hands behind his back, pausing to look long and hard at the fruit-trees against
the wall. Whitefriars had lost its privileges; Salisbury Court and the Savoy no
longer offered places of refuge to the debtor; and it was, therefore, doubly
requisite that the Island of Bermuda (as the Mint was termed by its occupants)
should uphold its rights, as long as it was able to do so. "
"So I find, Rowland," replied the other, in accents of deep disappointment, and at
the same time relinquishing his grasp. The lights of the Champs Elysées and the Place de la
Concorde, suggestive, brilliant, seductive, shone like an army of fireflies against
the deep cool background of the night.
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