’
‘Sport!’ grumbled her betrothed, but he accompanied them across the ballroom
all the same. \" Now
it was Michelle’s turn to laugh. Come, come, be reasonable, and listen
to me. And we men would work for them and serve them in loyal
fealty. “You didn’t expect that I should kiss you?”
“How was I to know that a man would—would think it was possible—when
there was nothing—no love?”
“How did I know there wasn’t love?”
That silenced her for a moment. ‘No, Melusine. He was all alone, too. Rattles were sprung; lanterns lighted,
and hoisted at the end of poles; windows thrown open; doors unbarred; and, as if
by magic, the street was instantaneously filled with a crowd of persons of both
sexes, armed with such weapons as came most readily to hand, and dressed in
such garments as could be most easily slipped on. ’
‘Yes, and it seems to me a very strange thing that he interferes all the time in
my affairs when I do not want him to do so,’ Melusine said aggrievedly, ‘and the
very first time that I wish him in truth to rescue me, he is not there. He was confounded by the presence in
which he found himself. "
"What is this to me, Sir?" said Trenchard, cutting him short. Then Mr.
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