Meanwhile, the excitement of the chase had in some degree subsided. She visited the corner that had been her own
little garden—her forget-me-nots and candytuft had long since been elbowed
into insignificance by weeds; she visited the raspberry-canes that had sheltered
that first love affair with the little boy in velvet, and the greenhouse where she
had been wont to read her secret letters. ”
“Isn’t that a little extreme?”
“I am an extreme person at times. Spurling was standing near the fire
superintending some culinary preparation; but she no sooner perceived him, than
hastily quitting her occupation, she elbowed a way for him and the knight
through the crowd, and ushered them, with much ceremony, into an inner room,
where they found the objects of their search, Quilt Arnold and Rykhart Van
Galgebrok, seated at a small table, quietly smoking. A white house that she often found
charming loomed gray and ashen, its gardens shorn for
the coming winter. ’
They passed through a little antechamber, and Melusine sighed with relief as
she entered the library next door. If this
success continued, it would be easy to assume the name of Taber. Besides," added he, opening the shawl in which the infant was wrapped,
and throwing the light of the candle full upon its sickly, but placid features, "it's
sinful to repine while you've a child like this to comfort you.
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