Why should he
stare at her in this fashion?—for all the world as if she had pointed a pistol at his
head?
CHAPTER III
He had said it, spoken it like that … his own name! After all these weeks of
trying to obliterate even the memory of it!… to have given it to this girl without
her asking!
The thought of peril cleared a space in the alcoholic fog. His eyes on Melusine, he uncocked the
pistol, and then reached out to the portrait, grasping it by one edge. The title had formerly
been held by Gianfrancesco’s brother, Alessia, now dead
of plague. He has been lodged in every round-house
in the metropolis, and has broken out of them all, and boasts that no prison can
hold him. I mean that the point is that vividness of perception is the essential factor of
beauty; but, of course, vividness may be created by a whisper. ’ He threw one arm across his own chest and clapped himself on the
shoulder. What more was to be done? Frith’s investigations had proved fruitful,
and the man was now keeping an eye on Valade.
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