’
‘Yes, do so,’ rejoined Melusine enthusiastically. She thought of an old
abandoned barn that she could inhabit further downriver,
but shrugged off the idea in disdain. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours. He
squatted and threw his arm around the backs of her
knees. Lucy did not move, but
instead stared straight forward, her eyes focused on the
desk where the presiding teacher on duty was supposed
to be. ’
The door closed behind them both and Gerald was alone with Melusine. "
Without waiting for a reply, but darting a malevolent look at the prisoner, he
quitted the cell, the door of which was instantly double-locked and bolted. Winifred listened to his narration with the profoundest attention; and, when it
concluded, her tearful eye and throbbing bosom told how deeply her feelings had
been interested. I think he got sick of us and he disappeared not
one week later. Her eye wandered quickly over that riotous and
disorderly assemblage, until it settled upon one group more riotous and
disorderly than the rest, of which her son formed the principal figure. She was glad to join in
the stream of hurrying homeward workers that was now welling out of a
thousand places of employment, and to imitate their driven, preoccupied haste. Gerald perhaps would know how to find him. But to live at
peace with your neighbour….
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