The simile started a
laugh in his throat. The Widgett method of thought puzzled her weakly rhetorical
mind. Good looks, with a melancholy cast,
always drew sentimental females. ’
Melusine was beginning to fill with dread and a burgeoning of anger as the
meaning behind his words began to penetrate. Any one less courageous than himself would have
abandoned the attempt from a conviction of its utter hopelessness; but, though it
might for a moment damp his ardour, it could not deter him. "I have just parted from one," said Trenchard. It is no good arguing about a
thing like that. . "
"No fear of that," rejoined Rowland: "such vermin never dare to show
themselves in this privileged district. By your
own showing you are in easy circumstances,—for it is only natural to presume
that a man who owes nothing must be in a condition to pay liberally,—and you
cannot therefore feel the loss of such a trifle as ten guineas. “Nothing. Still, it was rather terrible
to suspect that one had fallen from grace, but nevertheless the thing was
possible.
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