’
‘And your precious vicomte didn’t wish for the English one,’ said Charvill,
acid in his voice. His features
were regular, and finely-formed; his complexion bright and blooming,—a little
shaded, however, by travel and exposure to the sun; and, with a praiseworthy
contempt for the universal and preposterous fashion then prevailing, of
substituting a peruke for the natural covering of the head, he allowed his own
dark-brown hair to fall over his shoulders in ringlets as luxuriant as those that
distinguished the court gallant in Charles the Second's days—a fashion, which
we do not despair of seeing revived in our own days. He hadn't gambled or played the horses or hit the
booze back there in little old New York…. ’
Melusine edged a little away from the portrait. Ramage talked always about women or some woman’s concern, and very much
about Ann Veronica’s own outlook upon life. Perhaps
marriage hurt. ’
‘Ah. ”
“Then come back. ’
‘So you think she is an émigré?’ Lucilla put in before the incensed Roding
could respond. A few
minutes later she left the house on foot, and taking a hansom at the corner of the
Square, drove to Anna’s flat.
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