"I was," answered Sheppard. Parties, politics, and
popular opinions have changed. ‘I suppose this is the cavalier you had with
you when you—er—attended the ball the other night?’
‘Jacques is very useful to me,’ Melusine confirmed, bestowing that same
radiant smile on the young man, whose features were instantly suffused with
scarlet. “But your sister?” he asked. Wood set off at full speed
from the Mint, and, hurrying he scarce knew whither (for there was such a
continual buzzing in his ears and dancing in his eyes, as almost to take away the
power of reflection), he held on at a brisk pace till his strength completely failed
him. “You are beautiful, Lucy. For a while they stood there, silent, motionless, staring at the doorway where
still a few strings of the bamboo curtain swayed and twisted, agitated by the
Wastrel's passage. ”
She looked at him wistfully, but with some unwilling doubt in her wrinkled
forehead. ” She distantly
remembered moments in childhood spent in phobic
trance, when her father had told her God was punishing
sinners in Hell.
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