"Spare me!" he groaned, looking upwards. The discourse, then, turned to Darrell's old playmate, Jack Sheppard; and Mr. "Ah! what is that?" he cried, pointing
to a dark object floating near them amid the boiling waves, and which presented
a frightful resemblance to a human face. She drifted northward
from the Strand, and came on some queer and dingy quarters. But finding his hints totally disregarded, he, at length, swaggered up
to the table, and thrust in a chair. ‘She gave me four
separate identities for herself, you must know, including Prudence, before I
managed to get at her real name. ’
She sagged a little suddenly, as if the painful memories in her mind had
exhausted her body. ‘And me—’
‘You, mademoiselle, are more trouble than you’re worth, and I’ll thank you to
—’
‘Hilary, don’t,’ said Lucy, and Melusine’s rising temper cooled a little. His brain reeled. When I was younger, I was very sick with a
deadly flu. “One day,” he resumed, “we will start off early and come down into
Kandersteg and up these zigzags and here and here, and so past this Daubensee
to a tiny inn—it won’t be busy yet, though; we may get it all to ourselves—on
the brim of the steepest zigzag you can imagine, thousands of feet of zigzag; and
you will sit and eat lunch with me and look out across the Rhone Valley and over
blue distances beyond blue distances to the Matterhorn and Monte Rosa and a
long regiment of sunny, snowy mountains. At the corner of Liquorpond Street stood the old Hampstead coach-office; and,
on the night in question, a knot of hostlers, waggoners, drivers, and stable-boys
was collected in the yard. With the same inducements we should all do the same thing. "
"I know not how it is," sighed Darrell, "but I feel an unaccountable misgiving at
quitting this place. She was unusually helpful at breakfast, and unselfish about the eggs: and then
she went off to catch the train before her father’s.
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