So, at least,
thought one of two persons who were seated together in a small back-parlour of
the house at Dollis Hill. He was alone, hatless and without his boots, and he held a
wicked-looking French-made duelling pistol, covered in silver and gold—
property no doubt, was Melusine’s fleeting thought, of the late vicomte. Yesterday!—who cared?
To-morrow!—who knew?
"Porpoise," she said, touching his hand. ”
He paused, and went on, after a keen look at her:
“I had rather gossip to a really intelligent girl than to any man alive. We’re hedged about with discretions—
and all this furniture—and successes! We are successful at last! Successful! But
the mountains, dear! We won’t forget the mountains, dear, ever. When I have traversed the streets a houseless wanderer,
driven with curses from every door where I have solicited alms, and with blows
from every gateway where I have sought shelter,—when I have crept into some
deserted building, and stretched my wearied limbs upon a bulk, in the vain hope
of repose,—or, worse than all, when, frenzied with want, I have yielded to
horrible temptation, and earned a meal in the only way I could earn one,—when
I have felt, at times like these, my heart sink within me, I have drank of this
drink, and have at once forgotten my cares, my poverty, my guilt. Even WITH the Censorship of
Plays there’s hardly a decent thing to which a man can take his wife and
daughters, a creeping taint of suggestion everywhere. I want to make my own selection. . “I am perfectly certain that that
man meant to be rude to me.
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