‘Melusine!’
Distracted, Gosse blinked and his eyes flicked away from Melusine’s just as
she flung the fullness of her gathered petticoats in the way of his blade. ‘Damnation!’
Confused, he released her, and in an instant she had darted away and was
running down the garden. Wood, who had
been absent on business during the greater part of the day, returned (perhaps not
altogether undesignedly) at an earlier hour than was expected, to his dwelling in
Wych Street, Drury Lane; and was about to enter his workshop, when, not
hearing any sound of labour issue from within, he began to suspect that an
apprentice, of whose habits of industry he entertained some doubt, was
neglecting his employment. It now came to him with an added thrill how well she had told her story; simply
and directly, no skipping, no wandering hither and yon: from the first hour she
could remember, to the night she had fled in the proa, a clear sustained narrative. Hot coffee and cakes were sent in to them in the
morning by some intelligent sympathizer, or she would have starved all day. Imperceptibly almost Ann Veronica began to acquire the new
attitude, even while her mind still resisted the felted ideas that went with it. McClintock does it; and he knows why. She gave up as he finished, spending himself in
her mouth. "You won't betray him. O'Higgins was all that the doctor had
imagined a detective to be: a bulky policeman in civilian clothes. "
"Damnation!" cried Jonathan, stamping his foot with uncontrollable rage.
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