Chapter Two
‘Our French friends are beginning to form quite a little coterie,’ remarked
Gerald, covertly studying the group gathered in an alcove at the other side of
Lady Bicknacre’s ballroom. ‘You!’
‘Yes, it is I, mademoiselle,’ he continued in his own tongue. ’
‘Marry you!’
He shot off the desk, such horror in his face that Melusine felt a little irritated. Since the accession of George the First to the throne in the
preceding year, every effort had been made by the partisans of the Stuarts to
shake the credit of the existing government, and to gain supporters to their cause. Living,
he knew that he would never send that letter. There were dark
rims under her eyes, soft now with unshed tears. The second, comprising the bulk of the jail, and by many
degrees worse in point of accommodation, having several dismal and noisome
wards under ground, was common both to debtors and malefactors,—an
association little favourable to the morals or comforts of the former, who, if they
were brought there with any notions of honesty, seldom left with untainted
principles. ‘Do not look at me so,’ he snapped. But I want to know whether in such an event you would stand by
me?”
She held out her hand.
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