Then
a third secretarial opening occurred and renewed her hopes again: a position as
amanuensis—with which some of the lighter duties of a nurse were combined—
to an infirm gentleman of means living at Twickenham, and engaged upon a
great literary research to prove that the “Faery Queen” was really a treatise upon
molecular chemistry written in a peculiar and picturesquely handled cipher. You tell me he didn't like the stuff. Later that night, after she had cleaned herself and
changed her clothes, he returned. ‘Do you mean to tell me,’ enquired the captain at length, ‘that you have had
the infernal audacity, the—the gall, the—the— Gad, it’s an outrage! You’ve
stolen a horse from a priest?’
‘I did not steal it,’ protested Melusine hotly. "What did the old fellow judge from, eh, Joan?" asked he. You
should remember, before you try your strength against mine, that when I rescued
you from the watch, and you induced me to come and live with you, I beat off
four men, any of whom was a match for you—ha! ha!"
"My dear Poll!" said Kneebone, picking himself up, "I entreat you to moderate
yourself. Moving swiftly to the end of the corridor, he pushed
open a door at random and entered a large room, which looked to have been a
saloon, judging from the faded gilt and crimson wall-paper, a mirror above the
fireplace which was surrounded by an ornate gilded frame, now sadly tarnished,
and a worn Chippendale sofa with striped upholstery and tasselled cushions. It would have been better
had he succeeded in murdering her, she thought. As a matter of fact it isn’t their affair. Hobson, the Phys. There you are,
the best client’s chair. ‘Who has begun this but you?’
Gerald barely heard her. "I've waited supper, you perceive. He saw it in book-covers, on the stage.
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