‘Where was I? Oh yes. ‘Do you mean to tell me,’ enquired the captain at length, ‘that you have had
the infernal audacity, the—the gall, the—the— Gad, it’s an outrage! You’ve
stolen a horse from a priest?’
‘I did not steal it,’ protested Melusine hotly. According to Lucilla, this comtesse had constituted herself something of a
social leader in the rapidly growing assemblage of refugees, and would
undoubtedly be ready to introduce an eligible bachelor appropriately. ”
Anna smiled very faintly, and shook her head. "You call in vain," rejoined Thames. ”
“He probably does not know of the relationship,” Annabel remarked. But, after all, it will be
different. She was never able to
trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed
herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love
(and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she
realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he
cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired,
for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the
sawdust in its doll. His pipe
hung dead in his teeth, but the smoke was dense about him. “Will you come this way,” she said, “into the drawing-room? There is no one
there just now. Ireton; for may I be hanged myself if I don't believe he'll be as good as his
word. "
"Are you aware that I am her ladyship's brother?" returned the knight. . He appeared suddenly from the infinite in
the neighborhood of the Burlington Arcade, crossing the pavement toward her
and with his eyes upon her. She flung aside every plan she had in life, every discretion.
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