The dining saloon was done in mahogany and sandalwood, with eight cabins,
four to port and four to starboard. Prudence shook her head. It was a curious sight to see how this extraordinary woman, who, it has been
said, was not less remarkable for the extreme delicacy of her features, and the
faultless symmetry of her figure, than for her wonderful strength and agility,
conducted herself in the present encounter; with what dexterity she parried every
blow aimed against her by her adversary, whose head and face, already marked
by various ruddy streams, showed how successfully her own hits had been made;
—how she drew him hither and thither, now leading him on, now driving him
suddenly back; harassing and exhausting him in every possible way, and making
it apparent that she could at any moment put an end to the fight, and only
delayed the finishing stroke to make his punishment the more severe. She had only to get through this, to solace Manning as much as she
could, to put such clumsy plasterings on his wounds as were possible, and then,
anyhow, she would be free—free to put her fate to the test. For Melusine was on him again, the point of her sword lunging so that he
backed up onto the dais. Now when I tell you exactly the
truth, you will also not believe me. ”
“Until some one takes pity on me and marries me?”
He raised his eyebrows in mild appeal. “I shall probably want you to come down to the ‘Unusual’ to-morrow morning,”
he said. Of all the amazing coincidences. ”
“Why?”
“If I were bad at it, you would be on your way to the
hospital by now. Though encumbered by his
irons, his step was firm, and his demeanour dignified.
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