For a
moment she remained silent. ‘How disappointing,’ mourned Gerald. It has all been a mistake. ’
‘Miss Melusine Charvill,’ he repeated, ‘is a convent-bred genteel girl, who is
in all probability the granddaughter of General Lord Charvill. Near as idiot as this capitaine of yours. She sat on the edge of the bed
—the wardress was too busy with the flood of arrivals that day to discover that
she had it down—and her skin was shivering from the contact of these garments. A wide terrace then led to large iron gates,' over which were
placed the two celebrated figures of Raving and Melancholy Madness, executed
by the elder Cibber, and commemorated by Pope in the Dunciad, in the wellknown lines:—
"Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne,
And laughs to think Monroe would take her down,
Where, o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand,
Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand.
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