Having disposed of his steed and
swallowed a glass of brandy, without taking any other refreshment, he threw
himself on a couch, where he sank at once into a heavy slumber. Manning,”
she said, “for a time—Will you tell no one? Will you keep this—our secret? I’m
doubtful—Will you please not even tell my aunt?”
“As you will,” he said. But even you cannot alter her character. ”
The dinner came to an end at last, and the whiskered waiter presented his bill
and evacuated the apartment and closed the door behind him with an almost
ostentatious discretion. She gave up as he finished, spending himself in
her mouth. The expression, however,
which would chiefly have interested a beholder, was that of settled and profound
melancholy. ’
‘And why are you not married,’ she demanded suddenly, ‘if it is that you have
land?’
Gerald grimaced. ’
Grasping the lantern, and heedless now of the discomforts of the passage,
Melusine flew like the wind back towards the library, the vision of Jack
Kimble’s white face driving her on.
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