This was done, and Austin returned with a crest-fallen look to the table. ‘Do you think I am afraid of a sword in the hand of a slip of a girl?’
For answer, Melusine lunged at him. “Sydney is quite right, Miss Pellissier,” he said. "
"Odd's me! do you think so?" cried the host of the Trumpeter. It was Ennison who for the
rest of his visit was quiet and subdued. Anna turned round with a start, which was almost of guilt, the poker still in her
hand. "Recollect you are in my power. He laughed to hide his uneasiness. ’
Melusine swung away and moved to stare dully out of the window of the little
chapel vestry onto the mews outside. On the same day, moreover, which, by a
curious coincidence, was the birthday of the Chevalier de Saint George, mobs
were collected together in the streets, and the health of that prince was publicly
drunk under the title of James the Third; while, in many country towns, the bells
were rung, and rejoicings held, as if for a reigning monarch:—the cry of the
populace almost universally being, "No King George, but a Stuart!"
The adherents of the Chevalier de Saint George, we have said, were lavish in
promises to their proselytes. ‘Got you!’
‘You!’ Stunned, Melusine moved quickly away from the tell-tale bookshelf.
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