Uttering a faint scream, she sank backwards,
and would have fallen, if it had not been for the interposition of Blueskin, who,
at that moment, staggered into the room with a candle in one hand, and the bottle
in the other. Ramage came for her at her lodgings, and she
met him graciously and kindly as a queen who knows she must needs give
sorrow to a faithful liege. ‘Do you mean to tell me,’ enquired the captain at length, ‘that you have had
the infernal audacity, the—the gall, the—the— Gad, it’s an outrage! You’ve
stolen a horse from a priest?’
‘I did not steal it,’ protested Melusine hotly. Gerald guessed she was biting her tongue on an
explosive retort as she eyed him. Without a word, the general reached out and took them, but his glance
searched the girl’s face. She opened her eyes. ‘You will have to prove it, you know,’ Gerald said quietly. The prodigious success of the "Beggars' Opera," which was produced about four
years after the date of this history, rewarded him for all his previous
disappointments, though it did not fully justify the well-known epigram, alluding
to himself and the manager, and "make Gay rich, and Rich gay. The
pole-chair caravan resumed its journey. "
"Very true," chuckled Jackson; "very true.
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