"
"Then the sooner I'm off the better," cried Wood; "what's to pay, David?"
"Don't affront me, Owen, by asking such a question," returned the landlord;
"hadn't you better stop and finish the bottle?"
"Not a drop more," replied Wood. The comments on
the makeover lessened but were replaced by long
admiring glances by boys who had never before given her
the time of day. She padded up the stairs to the bedroom, finding that
her sheets had been changed with a fresh pillow case to
welcome her weary head. "Whatever you say—you, behind those stars there, if you are
a God. I don’t want to tear at you
with hot, rough hands. ’ Gerald came into the room as he spoke, his eyes on the
stormclouds rapidly gathering in Melusine’s face. But you will stay here?"
"I dare not. ‘Indeed?’
Gerald grinned. She carried herself well, whereas her brother slouched, and there
was a certain aristocratic dignity about her that she had acquired through her
long engagement to a curate of family, a scion of the Wiltshire Edmondshaws.
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