And such skirts as Ann Veronica had had
when she entered the valley of Saas were safely packed away in the hotel, and
she wore a leather belt and loose knickerbockers and puttees—a costume that
suited the fine, long lines of her limbs far better than any feminine walking-dress
could do. When a mere child she fixed her
affections upon a youth named Thames Darrell, whom her father brought up, and
who perished, it is supposed, about nine years ago; and she has determined to
remain faithful to his memory. Not far
from him was a knot of lads drinking, swearing, and playing at dice as eagerly
and as skilfully as any of the older hands. ’ The one ray of light lifted Melusine’s gloom a little and she
smiled. The young man did not
know what he was doing or where he was. For a stunned moment, Emile did not speak. It’s
too valiant, Miss Stanley, too valiant altogether!”
Ann Veronica meditated. ’
‘Of course I am, imbecile,’ she snapped, unconsciously echoing her greatniece. ’
‘A pox on the creature,’ swore Mrs Sindlesham, clenching and unclenching
her stiff fingers. ’
‘I see now how it was that Marthe knew of the secret passage,’ Melusine said. His father and mother were a lawyer and a
doctor, respectively. "
"Would you be angry if I offered it to you?"
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