The doctor smoked his pipe thoughtfully. “I should make sure that he
doesn’t try to drive himself home. Just as he got on the roof of the prison, St. ’
‘Precisely,’ Gerald repeated. ”
Anna wheeled an easy chair to the fire. ”
“It is,” he replied, “the one humiliation of my life. I have sinned deeply; but
I have been sorely tried. It consisted of a full-dress coat of
brown flowered velvet, laced with silver; a waistcoat of white satin, likewise
richly embroidered; shoes with red heels, and large diamond buckles; pearlcoloured silk stockings with gold clocks; a muslin cravat, or steen-kirk, as it was
termed, edged with the fine point lace; ruffles of the same material, and so ample
as almost to hide the tips of his fingers; and a silver-hilted sword. ‘Went to the dogs,
did Jarvis, after Mary died. We'll lather him with mud, shave him
with a rusty razor, and drench him with aqua pompaginis. ’
‘Where, then?’ Melusine asked again. But that
was soon put right, and she walked out into London with a peculiar exaltation of
mind, an exaltation that partook of panic and defiance, but was chiefly a sense of
vast unexampled release. "
"And now, father, your blessing—your consent!" cried Thames.
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