Tell me, what are these bananas and nuts for?”
“Dessert. “To be frank with you, Lady Lescelles, when your
brother asked me the other day to be his wife I was under a false impression as
regards his relations—with some other person. So I am already no longer the girl you knew at
Morningside Park. ’
Melusine did not reply. You are a sisterless man; you have never heard the ordinary talk that goes on at a
girls’ boarding-school. Somehow I haven’t connected the idea with you. He was going to settle I
forget how many millions upon me, and I think that I was dazzled. Diving towards it, he tried to press against the rivulet that was
seeping from it, hampered mightily by Melusine’s fingers, which were grasping
at his other hand. Wild, however, proved, on the evidence of his own
servants, that he was at the Old Bailey at the time; and Sir Rowland proved that
he was in Manchester. And it’s like the petals falling from a flower. His most eager
inquiries and most lavish bribes could gain no further information than that she
had left for England, and that her address was—London. Romance! The romance of passing faces, of wires that carried voices and words
to the far ends of the world, of tremendous mechanisms that propelled ships and
trains! And, oh the beautiful books!
She swiftly knelt upon the floor and once more gathered the books to her heart.
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