The business of
serving gave Gerald a few moment’s grace, for he was dubious about the effect
on an elderly female, not in the best of health, of raking up old memories. ’
‘Don’t be too sure,’ said Miss Froxfield darkly, with a mischievous glance at
her betrothed. “Lighten up. "Don't mention it," returned Wood, in the conciliatory tone of one who admits he
has been in the wrong; "your explanation is perfectly satisfactory. It was a charming sight to watch the motions of her tiny fingers as she pursued
her task; and though the posture she adopted was not the most favourable that
might have been chosen for the display of her sylphlike figure, there was
something in her attitude, and the glow of her countenance, lighted up by the
mellow radiance of the setting sun falling upon her through the panes of the little
dormer-window, that seemed to the youth inexpressibly beautiful. Wood. Spurlock possessed a vigorous intellect, critical, disquisitional, creative; and yet
he saw nothing remarkable in the girl's readiness to marry him! An obsession is a
blind spot. Here, Peter," he added to a curly-headed lad, who was playing on one
of the grassy tombs, "ask your father to step this way. Melusine was unable to repulse him—even had she tried. “Umph!” he said, and regarded his letter doubtfully before consigning it to the
pillar-box.
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