" (An order which was promptly obeyed. After a brief conversation, which Sheppard
sustained with his accustomed liveliness, the old man turned to Bess and
addressed a few words of common-place gallantry to her. The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. ’
‘Why should I?’
‘Because I can’t live without you!’
‘That is your own affair, and—’
Melusine broke off, staring at him, shocked realisation kicking in her gut. She was never able to
trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed
herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love
(and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she
realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he
cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired,
for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the
sawdust in its doll. And will you look! His name neatly cut out from each title page. Wild," cried Jack, placing
his hat on the right arm of the guide-post, and leaning over the board, "I've done
the trick myself. That is what I’ve had on my conscience. I charged the thief-taker, as was the
fact, with having robbed me, by means of the lad Sheppard, whom he instigated
to deed, of the very pocket-book he produced in evidence against me; but it was
of no avail—I couldn't obtain a hearing.
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