”
“I may come a little way, then?” he begged. Practically it was most of the chief interests
in life that she proposed to settle in this pedestrian meditation. "It would be a thousand pities, wouldn't it, to put so promising a
lad out of the way?"
"Devil!" exclaimed the knight fiercely, "Give me the paper. She would
stare if she knew the full sum of Melusine’s activities. She quickened her pace,
and so did he, talking at her slightly averted ear. He stood back, smiling with an air of proprietorship, and looking about him at
the business-like equipment of the room. “Before this there was a sort of restraint—a make-believe. This young man did not drink because he
sought the false happiness that lured men to the bottle. Spurling, formerly, it may be remembered, the hostess of the Dark House at
Queenhithe,—whence wine, ale, and brandy of inferior quality were dispensed,
in false measures, and at high prices, throughout the prison, which in noise and
debauchery rivalled, if it did not surpass, the lowest tavern. "
"Zounds!" exclaimed Quilt, "did you kill him?"
"Not quite," replied Terence, laughing; "but I brought him to his senses. Ann Veronica was much impressed by a mighty trying on and altering and
fussing about Alice’s “things”—Alice was being re-costumed from garret to
cellar, with a walking-dress and walking-boots to measure, and a bride’s costume
of the most ravishing description, and stockings and such like beyond the dreams
of avarice—and a constant and increasing dripping into the house of irrelevant
remarkable objects, such as—
Real lace bedspread;
Gilt travelling clock;
Ornamental pewter plaque;
Salad bowl (silver mounted) and servers;
Madgett’s “English Poets” (twelve volumes), bound purple morocco;
Etc.
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