The doctor frowned. Sheppard heaved a deep sigh,
and opened her eyes, which now looked larger, blacker, and more melancholy
than ever. CHAPTER XVIII. Melusine soon found herself seated at a table, with a dirty piece of paper in
front of her, and a badly mended pen between her fingers. ‘Gérard will think that I have gone back to London. You have betrayed me. He reached for her, and she struck savagely. It surprised her she hadn’t thought of
it before! She tried to explain that she was going to pay him forty pounds
without fail next week. "
The spinster had no retort to offer such directness. "
"Give me an acquittance," said Trenchard. "All my life I've dreamed of something like this," he said, divertingly, with a
gesture which included the yacht. It just made me
mad to the boiling point. "What!" she exclaimed, almost choked with passion,—"I advised you to burthen
yourself with that idle and good-for-nothing pauper, who'm you ought rather to
send to the workhouse than maintain at your own expense, did I! I advised you
to take him as an apprentice; and, so far from getting the regular fee with him, to
give him a salary? I advised you to feed him, and clothe him, and treat him like
his betters; to put up with his insolence, and wink at his faults? I counselled all
this, I suppose. I don’t think of you
as a kid.
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