All along the
wooden benches before it sat a profusion of soldiery, a collection of barbers in
attendance, busily employed in replaiting and powdering their hair ready for a
military review scheduled for this afternoon. Ennison had
disappeared. ”
“For the others,” Annabel said tearfully, “that is well enough. ’
‘It is well seen you are not Gérard,’ Melusine said, but thankful now that he
was not. John stared palely. Presently he began to weave a tale, sorry enough, with all the
ancient claptraps and rusted platitudes. He only stays here for you, hoping in vain. ’
‘Miss Melusine Charvill,’ he repeated, ‘is a convent-bred genteel girl, who is
in all probability the granddaughter of General Lord Charvill. The distinction
lay chiefly in the right to pat their heads. Just what in the world was that about?
Before he could hazard a guess, Lucy looked back at him. The lady's name's
engraved inside, but so small I can scarcely read it. Other, and more serious impositions, inasmuch as they affected
a poorer class of persons, were practised by the underlings of the jail.
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