She visited the corner that had been her own
little garden—her forget-me-nots and candytuft had long since been elbowed
into insignificance by weeds; she visited the raspberry-canes that had sheltered
that first love affair with the little boy in velvet, and the greenhouse where she
had been wont to read her secret letters. ”
Anna nodded. It was a reputation
by no means deserved. ’
‘Well, but Leonardo he was excessively useful to me, you know,’ Melusine
said airily. You shall hear from me to-morrow. "Had I not been the guilty wretch I am," he cried, bursting into an agony of tears,
"she would never have died thus. "That's
an incorrigible rascal," he added, as Sheppard closed the door; "it's only to-day
that I discovered—"
"What?" asked Jackson, pricking up his ears. There was only one idea in his head now—to batter and bruise and crush
this weakling, then cast him at the feet of his love-lorn wife. One might have said that these
trees grieved for their native soil; and, grieving, refused to bear. I cannot let you go. Haven’t I shown you over and over again that I mean you no
harm? What do I have to do?’
‘You can go away and leave me to my affairs,’ she threw at him. ‘And if it is true that you love me, I do
not know why it is that you do not kiss me again at once. Nigel Ennison was my very good friend, but there is not the
slightest reason for your not marrying him, if you wish to do so. Fancying they were alone, Sir Rowland threw aside his cloak, and produced a
heavy bag of money, which he flung upon the table; and, when Wild had feasted
his greedy eyes sufficiently upon its golden contents, he handed him a pocketbook filled with notes. ’
‘Yes, that is what he said,’ agreed Melusine, pleased to find him of so ready an
understanding.
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