She was an indignant queen, no doubt she was
alarmed and disgusted within limits; but she was highly excited, and there was
something, some low adventurous strain in her being, some element, subtle at
least if base, going about the rioting ways and crowded insurgent meeting-places
of her mind declaring that the whole affair was after all—they are the only words
that express it—a very great lark indeed. You were
only one room removed from the library, see. On their left the river, with its gloomy pile of buildings on the opposite side, and
a huge revolving advertisement throwing its strange reflection upon the black
water. Upon a
table, where they had been hastily deposited, on the intelligence of Darrell's
accident, lay a pair of pink kid gloves, bordered with lace, and an enormous fan;
the latter, when opened, represented the metamorphosis and death of Actæon. Selecting a key from the heavy
bunch committed to him by Austin, he threw open the door, and beheld Blueskin
seated at the back of the small chamber, handcuffed, and with his feet confined
in a heavy pair of stocks. The little matter of an accent may be misleading, I grant you, but
—’
He was interrupted, and with impatience. “It will spoil your life. "He never let me keep a dog or a cat about the house. At least, he would always be able to take care of Ruth. Don’t you know I disinherited the rogue?’
‘This we knew, milor’,’ said Valade. It troubled her conscience a little, but Melusine had learned well
of Leonardo and she trusted his word
Besides, no one could expect that a jeune demoiselle, in a foreign land, might
carry out quite alone the difficult task with which she was faced.
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