‘Tee-ree-sa. ’
‘Pah!’
‘Precisely. ’
‘Why should you care?’ demanded Roding, exasperated. You know they say, as, indeed, I have just quoted already, that
all bad poetry is written in a state of emotion, but I have no doubt that this is true
of bad offers of marriage. Opening the door he then stepped into a dark narrow passage leading, as he was
well aware, to the chapel. ‘But then again, possibly not. She sat in a chair in the parlour and regarded the darkening sky through the
small casement window. He passed but a cursory glance over the formal certificate that identified the
Frenchman before him as one André Valade, distant cousin to the Vicomte
Valade. “If I were to marry now,” she said, “it would be with a sense of humiliation. I dare say anything seemed better to her
than the nun’s habit she had been obliged to use. She had never experienced anything so disagreeable in her life as the
sense of being held helplessly off her feet. Then they dressed
her in a dirty dress of coarse serge and a cap, and took away her own clothes. With some difficulty, they managed to negotiate the passage with
their burden and carry him out into the library. Marriage was a taboo subject between them. That there Frenchie didn’t look
any too friendly to me.
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