“Were you ever in love, aunt?” she asked. Now, will you
stand aside?"
"I won't," answered Jack, obstinately. It’s gone. I cannot be intimate—’ stressing the word with a deep look ‘—
with one I feel to be a stranger. . To him she had always appeared as a mere pleasure-loving
parasite—something quite insignificant. “Please forgive me coming up, Miss
Pellissier, but you have not been down to dinner for three nights, and—Brendon
and I—we were afraid that you might be unwell. But through the fault of that pig,
who dared to call himself Valade and masquerade in society under her birthright. ”
“Why not?” she asked quietly. Ascending the stairs, and conducting them
along a sombre gallery, in which Trenchard noticed that every door was painted
black, and numbered, he stopped at the entrance of a chamber; and, selecting a
key from the bunch at his girdle, unlocked it. Oddly, Sebastian chose to be charioteer. Her
breath came fast in little sobbing pants. She screamed involuntarily—she had
never in her life screamed before—and then she began to wriggle and fight like a
frightened animal against the men who were holding her. ‘Do you mean to tell me,’ enquired the captain at length, ‘that you have had
the infernal audacity, the—the gall, the—the— Gad, it’s an outrage! You’ve
stolen a horse from a priest?’
‘I did not steal it,’ protested Melusine hotly. “A very clear statement, madam,” he said.
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