The
windows which were about nine feet from the floor, had no glass; but were
secured by thick iron bars, and an oaken beam. She had
tried him as a Crusader, in which guise he seemed plausible but heavy—“There
IS something heavy about him; I wonder if it’s his mustache?”—and as a Hussar,
which made him preposterous, and as a Black Brunswicker, which was better,
and as an Arab sheik. Why doesn’t she marry? Plenty of money under her father’s will. Or, if you were about to embark upon a
nautical career, here was all the information required. His vision was becoming accustomed to the faint light now
and her features were clearer. As Leonardo had himself
pronounced, who better than a mountebank to teach of the perils awaiting the
unwary? Who better than a wastrel to demonstrate the worth of thrift? And who
could instruct better in the matter of affections than one who had thrown them
away?
‘If he had loved me,’ she said, in the flat tone she had learned to use to conceal
her vulnerable heart, ‘he would have left me at Remenham House to live a life of
an English lady. “There is one thing I must concentrate on at the moment,” she told herself, “and
that is how to pay my next week’s bill to Mrs. He was, in fact, quite eager to go on
living.
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