‘Mademoiselle,’ he had greeted her, entering the little private parlour where,
Martha being at prayer in their room, she sat alone, reading over and over the
letter Mother Abbess had given her and revolving plans in her head. “Just fine. This man was her husband in the eyes of both God
and man. Lucy slipped upstairs silently. She cursed herself for a fool. She winced as he thrust the fact at her, was about to answer, and checked herself. She posed herself before her mirror and surveyed herself with
gravely thoughtful, gravely critical, and yet admiring eyes. On the very day of
which we write, namely, the 10th of June 1715, Bolingbroke and Oxford were
impeached of high treason. But I tell you in return, I shall take no pains to hide
myself. "Are
you a poltroon, after all?"
"That's it! I ought to have died that night!"
"Or is there a taint of insanity in your family history? Alone and practically
penniless like yourself! You weren't even stirred by gratitude.
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