For an instant, Gerald wished the rest of the world away that he might go to
her and administer appropriate comfort. He renewed
his supplications to Sharples, but with no better success than heretofore; and the
greater part of the night was passed by him and the poor widow, whose anxiety,
if possible, exceeded his own, in the most miserable state imaginable. “It may be her salvation. Taken altogether, his physiognomy resembled
one of those vagabond heads which Murillo delighted to paint, and for which
Guzman d'Alfarache, Lazarillo de Tormes, or Estevanillo Gonzalez might have
sat:—faces that almost make one in love with roguery, they seem so full of
vivacity and enjoyment. Only how had they missed him?
Were they imbecile? Or perhaps the mists had concealed him from them. "
"Well," replied her son; "and you spurn the proposal. But she certainly remembered that when she was a
little girl he sometimes wore tennis flannels, and also rode a bicycle very
dexterously in through the gates to the front door. “I hope you realize,” he went on, in a lower and less assured tone, “that I am in
earnest—very much in earnest. ’
Melusine caught the fellow eyeing her with resentment and beckoned as she
called out to him. She looked into his eyes, truly noticing
their gray color for the first time. " It was not uttered interrogatively; rather as though Ah Cum did
not like the significance of the word and was turning it over and about in
speculation.
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