It troubled her conscience a little, but Melusine had learned well
of Leonardo and she trusted his word
Besides, no one could expect that a jeune demoiselle, in a foreign land, might
carry out quite alone the difficult task with which she was faced. Besides," added he, opening the shawl in which the infant was wrapped,
and throwing the light of the candle full upon its sickly, but placid features, "it's
sinful to repine while you've a child like this to comfort you. You are wrong even about that man’s scientific
position and his standard of work. But there was nothing in her bearing that a
passer-by would have noted, to tell of the excitement that possessed her. ‘For God’s sake, let go my hand,’ he begged. Manning displayed distress. The stipendiary would
have done it all very differently. So overjoyed was the carpenter with the successful issue of his undertaking, that
he scarcely paused a moment to recruit himself; but, securing the child, set out
upon his return.
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