”
John approached Lucy, handing the bouquet to her. In the first
place, it will be damnably dull. Modern, indeed! She was going to be as primordial as chipped flint. Rather a magniloquent term, perhaps, but what
else am I to say? One of these is that the most absolutely selfish thing in the
world is to give way to depression, to think of one’s troubles at all except of how
to overcome them. The Protestant Flagellant, who whipped his soul rather than his
body, who made self-denial the rack and the boot, who believed that on Sunday
it was sacrilegious to smile, blasphemous to laugh! Spurlock had gone back
spiritually three hundred years. The four tourists contributed varied sums: the
spinsters ten cents each, the girl a shilling, the young man a Mexican dollar. “Hotel Ritz!”
Chapter XXXI
ANNA’S TEA PARTY
“I suppose you haven’t the least idea who I am,” Lady Lescelles said, as she
settled herself in Anna’s most comfortable chair. ’
‘How did you come by it? You didn’t steal it, did you?’
‘Certainly I did not steal it,’ said Melusine indignantly. "Shall I never banish those horrible phantoms from my couch—the
father with his bleeding breast and dripping hair!—the mother with her wringing
hands and looks of vengeance and reproach!—And must another be added to
their number—their son! Horror!—let me be spared this new crime! And yet the
gibbet—my name tarnished—my escutcheon blotted by the hangman!—No, I
cannot submit to that. Restraining with an effort his
intense curiosity, he talked of general subjects only, trying his best to entertain
her. Into this new world, vivid with colour, came Spurlock, receptively. “Will you tell Sydney that I will see him in the morning,” he said. "
CHAPTER XVIII.
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