Kimble had bedded the animal down at
the local inn. Brendon’s had an awful stroke of luck. An avid reader in many genres, I love to share books that have given
me much pleasure. ‘But can you? You don’t know Melusine for Mary Remenham’s daughter, any
more than I do. Why? While the
front of his mind was busy warning her not to fall into the hopeless miseries of
underpaid teaching, and explaining his idea that for women of initiative, quite as
much as for men, the world of business had by far the best chances, the back
chambers of his brain were busy with the problem of that “Why?”
His first idea as a man of the world was to explain her unrest by a lover, some
secret or forbidden or impossible lover. “She must be warned. "He is," replied a portly personage, arrayed in a gorgeous yellow brocade
dressing-gown, lined with cherry-coloured satin, and having a crimson velvet
cap, surmounted by a gold tassel, on his head. Presently he began to weave a tale, sorry enough, with all the
ancient claptraps and rusted platitudes. These
women could not be bad, else the hotel would not have permitted them to enter!
Still, the scene presented a riddle: to give immunity to the black women who
went about all but naked and to damn the white for exposing their shoulders!
She had eaten but little; all her hunger had been in her eyes—and in her heart. ’
‘Did no one know, then?’
‘No, for the vicomte, we learned later, wrote to General Lord Charvill in
pursuit of his sister.
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