"If the best nag ever
foaled were to throw me in this unlucky spot, I'd blow his brains out. His features
were regular, and finely-formed; his complexion bright and blooming,—a little
shaded, however, by travel and exposure to the sun; and, with a praiseworthy
contempt for the universal and preposterous fashion then prevailing, of
substituting a peruke for the natural covering of the head, he allowed his own
dark-brown hair to fall over his shoulders in ringlets as luxuriant as those that
distinguished the court gallant in Charles the Second's days—a fashion, which
we do not despair of seeing revived in our own days. He parried without apparent effort. The clever hostess having let fall that
several distinguished guests from France would be present, the world had
flocked to her doors to catch, like the gossip-hungry vultures they were, a
glimpse of them. She saw his purpose and his doubt hesitated also, and
then went to him, took his coat lapels, and kissed him on the cheek. And, if I'd my own way, I'd drown 'em all like a litter o'
puppies. No surprise, for Melusine was aware no Frenchman in his
situation would dream of walking abroad unarmed. She knew
that in her new rôle she was as likely as not to be a rank failure. ’
‘Yes, Hilary, do stop hustling the girl,’ put in Miss Froxfield, much to
Melusine’s relief and approval. Good heavens! She was discussing love-making. A lawyer has come all the way from
America about it. “I want to have no distractions. He, for his part, was trying to grasp the series of unexpected reactions that had
so wrecked their tete-a-tete. "You needn't gag me," he added, "I'll not cry out. ” The
doors at the other end of the hall opened.
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