He was officially in the nun’s employ, but Melusine had
commandeered his services immediately on the discovery that he had conceived
a passion for her. One point was that she was to wear fancy dress in the likeness of a
Corsair’s bride, and the other was that she was to spend whatever vestiges of the
night remained after the dance was over in London with the Widgett girls and a
select party in “quite a decent little hotel” near Fitzroy Square. Goopes, who had at first been a little reserved, resorted
presently to the Socratic method to restrain the young man with the orange tie,
and bent his forehead over him, and brought out at last very clearly from him
that the body was only illusion and everything nothing but just spirit and
molecules of thought. "
"It may be; but if it shortens the distance and lightens the journey, I care not,"
retorted the widow, who seemed by this reproach to be roused into sudden
eloquence. "Besides, lad, even an advertisement of a cough-drop is
something to read. It was a long
walk she had to undertake, even if she had endured no previous fatigue, but
feeble as she was, it was almost more than she could accomplish. The crown has passed from the brow of one
monarch to that of another. Is it an old ring?” he asked, returning it. ’
Melusine hesitated. I might as well be at Morningside
Park. At the recollection that it was his, she seemed to fall
through a thin surface, as one might fall through the crust of a lava into glowing
depths.
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