Gerald’s thoughts raced as he reached out supporting hands and murmured
meaningless phrases to soothe. “Then we must try and make London endurable for you,” he remarked
cheerfully. But
I'll call a doctor, since you order it. ‘You are, I think,
a gentleman, no?’
Gerald bowed. They tried to read
illustrated papers in an unconcerned manner and with forced attention, lest they
should catch the leaping exultation in each other’s eyes. The ripple of the water against the boat, as its keel cleaves
through the stream—the darkling current hurrying by—the indistinctly-seen
craft, of all forms and all sizes, hovering around, and making their way in ghostlike silence, or warning each other of their approach by cries, that, heard from
afar, have something doleful in their note—the solemn shadows cast by the
bridges—the deeper gloom of the echoing arches—the lights glimmering from
the banks—the red reflection thrown upon the waves by a fire kindled on some
stationary barge—the tall and fantastic shapes of the houses, as discerned
through the obscurity;—these, and other sights and sounds of the same character,
give a sombre colour to the thoughts of one who may choose to indulge in
meditation at such a time and in such a place. ‘Or perhaps to marry the soi-disant
cousin that Emile portrays?’
That silenced Martha, for the Mother Abbess had sent her off with Melusine to
England not only for the sake of the girl herself, but to save at least one of her
nuns from the growing wrath of the populace of France. We've made a pretty penny by him—sixty guineas
this blessed day. I'd like to be alone now. ‘What else do you expect? It’s the penalty you pay for marrying an
Englishman. Even Lucy’s bra and
panties, the ubiquitous polyester underwire and matching
cotton bikini briefs from Kmart, were gone. He forgot for the moment his own self-pity, the
egotism of his own passionate love. You don’t know. She
leaned back in the corner of the cab with a little sigh of relief. Have I your final answer?"
"You have, Sir Rowland," she answered, in a feeble tone, but firmly.
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