Ah
Cum had no business taking him into the city last night. "What!" she exclaimed, almost choked with passion,—"I advised you to burthen
yourself with that idle and good-for-nothing pauper, who'm you ought rather to
send to the workhouse than maintain at your own expense, did I! I advised you
to take him as an apprentice; and, so far from getting the regular fee with him, to
give him a salary? I advised you to feed him, and clothe him, and treat him like
his betters; to put up with his insolence, and wink at his faults? I counselled all
this, I suppose. ”
“No, I wanted to talk to you, Lucy, to invite you to a
dinner party. “Who’ll
mind the baby nar?” was one of the night’s inspirations, and very frequent. F. Courtlaw might have been able to give
me an idea where to stop. Drowning, her brain dizzy, Melusine clung
to the source of the flooding warmth, her hands, no longer forcibly held, moving
without will about the firm back. Why should he
stare at her in this fashion?—for all the world as if she had pointed a pistol at his
head?
CHAPTER III
He had said it, spoken it like that … his own name! After all these weeks of
trying to obliterate even the memory of it!… to have given it to this girl without
her asking!
The thought of peril cleared a space in the alcoholic fog. . I had no right to marry you. ‘You would
know more of me?’
‘I would know everything about you,’ Gerald told her, his tone at once
provocative and inviting. The
wish was vain: and, endeavouring to banish every earthly thought, he addressed
himself deeply and sincerely to prayer. He beheld the grey tower of Willesden Church, embosomed in its grove of trees,
now clothed, in all the glowing livery of autumn.
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