Covered
with houses, from one end to the other, this reverend and picturesque structure
presented the appearance of a street across the Thames. Melusine approached with
caution and sat warily at one end, looking up at him expectantly. Once he had managed to stake his claim, she would have all
to do to prove her identity and win it back. "Are
you a poltroon, after all?"
"That's it! I ought to have died that night!"
"Or is there a taint of insanity in your family history? Alone and practically
penniless like yourself! You weren't even stirred by gratitude. We
won’t drag you away until you’ve been through the place from top to bottom. It did not matter that he wore the cloth; something was wrong with
him. The young
lady—if she had come in here at all—had vanished. She went to a writing-desk and made some memoranda on a
sheet of note-paper, and then remembered that she had no address as yet to
which letters could be sent. "Devil!" cried the widow, catching his arm, and gazing with frantic eagerness in
his face, "how many years will you give my son before you execute your terrible
threat?"
"NINE!" answered Jonathan sternly. She even thought that perhaps she might come to
love him, in spite of that faint indefinable flavor of absurdity that pervaded his
courtly bearing. It's always hard work for a rich man's son to stand alone. Her eyes glistened in the darkness—for light was only
admitted through a small grated window—like flames, and, as she fixed them on
him, their glances seemed to penetrate his very soul. "
As he said this, the carpenter patted the cheek of the little object of his
benevolent professions, and, in so doing, unintentionally aroused him from his
slumbers. Their flitting hands were always touching.
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