I have a certain
standing not only as a singer but as a critic, and I belong to one of the most
brilliant causerie dinner clubs of the day, in which successful Bohemianism,
politicians, men of affairs, artists, sculptors, and cultivated noblemen generally,
mingle together in the easiest and most delightful intercourse. Melusine approached with
caution and sat warily at one end, looking up at him expectantly. The haste to send her upon her way now had but one interpretation—the
recognition of his own immediate danger, the fear that if this tender association
continued, he would end in offering her a calamity quite as impossible as that
which had happened—the love of a man who was in all probability older than
her father! The hurt was no less intensive because it was so ridiculous. ‘Think I’m fool enough to do my business in a convent?’ he said scornfully. He taught her how to
read and write in Latin and Greek, often rewarding her
for her efforts with a flower or a trinket. “Concern me!” she repeated fiercely. . ‘Well she does,’ insisted Miss Froxfield impenitently, and turned to Gerald.
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