He occupied one of the smaller houses near the
station. Melusine was loath to admit how
much more lonely since Gerald chose not to visit her. The tiles lay a
foot thick in the road. Her
head rose. Wood, in a whisper, as he filled a rummer to the
brim, not to forget the health of the Chevalier de Saint George—a proposition to
which the lady immediately responded by drinking the toast aloud. Urging his steed along Oxford Road,—
as that great approach to the metropolis was then termed,—he soon passed
Marylebone Lane, beyond which, with the exception of a few scattered houses,
the country was completely open on the right, and laid out in pleasant fields and
gardens; nor did he draw in the rein until he arrived at Tyburn-gate, where,
before he turned off upon the Edgeware Road, he halted for a moment, to glance
at the place of execution. Red velvet curtains
rustled under dim lights as the door shut with a heavy
snap. "
"Mr.
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