”
Ahead of them walked a gentleman whom it was evident they must at their
present pace very speedily overtake. Her heart in her
mouth, she heard his foot scrape on the floorboard and knew from his expression
that Gosse had heard it too. ‘A thing Marthe told me of,’ Melusine answered, her attention on the garments
that were still lying higgledy-piggledy, just as she had left them. He appeared to be a stranger to the prisoner, and the sole
motive of his visit, curiosity. The marriage lines that confirmed a union between the said André
Valade and Mademoiselle Melusine Charvill touched the old scars and he gave
vent to a muttered expletive. He was alert, well-groomed, and yet—perhaps in contrast with
the more volatile French type—there was a suggestion of weight about him, not
to say heaviness. Advancing with a slow firm step to the stone-block he placed his left foot upon
it, drew himself up to his full height, and fixed a look so stern upon Jonathan,
that the thief-taker quailed before it. The air,
perfumed with the delicious fragrance of the new-mown grass, was vocal with
the melodies of the birds; the thick foliage of the trees was glistening in the
sunshine; all nature seemed happy and rejoicing; but, above all, the serene
Sabbath stillness reigning around communicated a calm to her wounded spirit.
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