Seizing her hand he covered it with kisses. The stranger with
a bow returned to his table. It did not cheer or fortify him with false
courage and recklessness; it simply enveloped him in a mist of unreality. ‘Do you mean to tell me,’ enquired the captain at length, ‘that you have had
the infernal audacity, the—the gall, the—the— Gad, it’s an outrage! You’ve
stolen a horse from a priest?’
‘I did not steal it,’ protested Melusine hotly. God! I have cheated
myself into a belief that the boy perished! And now my worst fears are realized
—he lives!"
"As yet," returned Jonathan, with fearful emphasis. Her
eyes flashed and she withdrew the dagger, pulling away from him. Lucy saw that perhaps she had been attracted
to Martin all along. But there was something in his face at once stupid and invincible that
told her he would go on forcing himself upon her, that he would esteem speech
with her a great point gained. That is why they are permitted
to rush in where angels fear to tread—and survive their daring! This supreme
protection, this unwritten warranty to disregard all laws, occult or apparent,
divine or earthly, may be attributed to the fact that none but young fools dream
gloriously. 1 with
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