There
was an eerie sense of brooding menace about an uninhabited establishment. And so,
the invasion really is to take place after all; and the Chevalier de Saint George is
to land at the Tower with fifty thousand Frenchmen; and the Hanoverian
usurper's to be beheaded; and Doctor Sacheverel's to be made a bishop, and
we're all to be—eh?"
"All in good time," returned Kneebone, putting his finger to his lips; "don't let
your imagination run away with you, my charmer. I like you
very much, I haven’t known you enough to love you, no
matter how worthy you are of love. ‘Do you think I could endure to hear you prattling your abominable
French in my ear day by day? Enough to drive me straight into my grave. “That’s all. “Read this, John. As Leonardo had himself
pronounced, who better than a mountebank to teach of the perils awaiting the
unwary? Who better than a wastrel to demonstrate the worth of thrift? And who
could instruct better in the matter of affections than one who had thrown them
away?
‘If he had loved me,’ she said, in the flat tone she had learned to use to conceal
her vulnerable heart, ‘he would have left me at Remenham House to live a life of
an English lady. Presently she woke up to the fact that there was a considerable group of interests
called being in love and getting married, with certain attractive and amusing
subsidiary developments, such as flirtation and “being interested” in people of
the opposite sex.
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