”
“She didn’t say she’d met any one. Sheppard's dress—extremely
neat and clean, but simply fashioned, and of the plainest and most unpretending
material,—offered nothing assailable; and her demeanour was so humble, and
her looks so modest, that—if she had been ill-looking—she might, possibly,
have escaped the shafts of malice preparing to be levelled against her. "Spring!—I never knew any. ‘Gerald, what have you been about? Dorothée tells me that you were
flirting outrageously with Madame Valade on Monday night. The thought caused him an odd kind of pang—of pity, naturally. "If you are in earnest, Thames," she replied, with a look of gentle reproach, "you
are very foolish; and, if in jest, very cruel. He had not thought to find a lady so ready of
humour and willing to give him a hearing. Dreams of adorable infants danced through her head
as she cradled blankets in her arms. "All right," replied Sheppard, with affected indifference. ‘Why
did he make me French, Marthe? Why did he give me this name of Melusine,
and say I am born of Suzanne Valade?’
Martha looked at her, but her lips remained firmly closed. "I didn't imagine for a moment that
you'd accept it, but I thought it right to make you the offer. After the day in the library, he constantly
demonstrated his affections; Gianfrancesco had never
done that. John looked at his feet bashfully. We’ve deserted the posts
in which we found ourselves, cut our duties, exposed ourselves to risks that may
destroy any sort of social usefulness in us. “I wonder,” she began, presently, “why I love you—and love you so much?.
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