Wood again made his appearance in a more
composed frame of mind, and, at his daughter's earnest solicitation, was induced
to partake of some refreshment. "She has fallen into the
villain's hands. “Will you help me?” he asked. Wood, furiously. I could never
make you understand. Lucy tried not to make her cringe
noticeable. He remembered that, before he
attempted to dislodge the stone, he had placed the child in a cavity of the pier,
which the granite mass had been intended to fill. ‘And I’d like to know what the devil—’
‘Out of town?’ repeated Melusine, stupefied. He certainly bore
inspection. Wanted her out of
the way because he had been afraid of her, afraid of himself! He, at fifty-four!
Then into this void poured a flaming anger, a blind and unreasoning anger. He came in with his hands in his trousers pockets and a general air of
depression in his bearing. Marriage!—and no woman by to tell the child what it was! The shocks and
disillusions she would have to meet unsuspectingly—and bitterly. “I’ll try to stop by. Lady Palsworthy was the widow of
a knight who had won his spurs in the wholesale coal trade, she was of good
seventeenth-century attorney blood, a county family, and distantly related to
Aunt Mollie’s deceased curate. .
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