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. Among the commercial enticements McClintock found a real letter. A few words passed between him and the thief-taker as the latter came
up; after which, all the party—with the exception of Quilt, who was left on shore
—embarked within the wherry, which was pushed from the strand and rowed
swiftly along the stream—for the tide was in its favour—by a couple of
watermen. One day she awoke and he was cavorting about
underneath the covers. You would
find things to laugh at even in Artemus Ward. He flung Ruth aside, careless whether she fell or
not. “Do you know, I have been wondering what had become of you,” she said. At the present moment she was living in a world of her own creation, a carnival
of brave men and fair women, characters out of the tales she had so newly read
for the first time. His legs were fine and
strong, he told her that he had been a warrior in ancient
times, to which she snorted in disgust. But that
was soon put right, and she walked out into London with a peculiar exaltation of
mind, an exaltation that partook of panic and defiance, but was chiefly a sense of
vast unexampled release. ‘This is the way you tell me that you love me? You English idiot, you!’
He seized her wrists to hold her off, actually daring to laugh, much to
Melusine’s increased fury.
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