Clear water gave away to
gray as she waded deeper, feeling her slippers on rock. ’
He paused, but Melusine caught the inference. Descending the hollow, or rather excavation,—for it was an old disused clay-pit,
at the bottom of which the cottage was situated,—he speedily succeeded in
arousing the ancient sibyl, and having committed Edgeworth Bess to her care,
with a promise of an abundant reward in case she watched diligently over her
safety, and attended to her comforts till his return,—to all which Black Mary
readily agreed,—he departed with a heart lightened of half its load. "That depends upon you. For his own part he could not sufficiently admire the pluck of this
lady, who, notwithstanding all that she had been through, had chosen to appear
this evening rather than break her engagement. They should never come into contact with politics or economics—or any
of those things. His grey eyes burned under his shaggy
eyebrows. "How is the patient?" he asked. Would you like to borrow some of
my clothes? I think we're about the same size. ’
‘How did you come by it? You didn’t steal it, did you?’
‘Certainly I did not steal it,’ said Melusine indignantly. ‘Adieu, imbecile,’ she threw at him gleefully. She attended to that, and then dismissed it as unimportant. Something in his smile, in the cynical suggestiveness of his deferential tone,
maddened her. And I have
wanted to so very much. "
"Then it was not a dream!" ejaculated Sir Rowland in a hollow voice, and as if
speaking to himself.
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