It was a moment or two before Gerald, opening his eyes on the girl’s astounded expression, recollected himself sufficiently to pull out of the extraordinary impact she’d had on him. ‘I trust you are cursing Valade, and not Melusine. When I have traversed the streets a houseless wanderer, driven with curses from every door where I have solicited alms, and with blows from every gateway where I have sought shelter,—when I have crept into some deserted building, and stretched my wearied limbs upon a bulk, in the vain hope of repose,—or, worse than all, when, frenzied with want, I have yielded to horrible temptation, and earned a meal in the only way I could earn one,—when I have felt, at times like these, my heart sink within me, I have drank of this drink, and have at once forgotten my cares, my poverty, my guilt. Niece and aunt regarded each other for a moment over their pockethandkerchiefs with watery but antagonistic eyes, each far too profoundly moved to see the absurdity of the position. The clock struck half-past ten. Montague Hill was taken for the millionaire once or twice, and I suppose it flattered his vanity. "If you are in earnest, Thames," she replied, with a look of gentle reproach, "you are very foolish; and, if in jest, very cruel. Wood will protect you," urged Mrs. Michelle looked at Lucy knowingly. "Fly, Captain—fly!" Aroused to a sense of the possibility of escape, Jack, who had viewed the deadly assault with savage satisfaction, burst from his captors and made for the door. "I'll tell you," replied Jack, with forced calmness. ‘But I’m hanged if I know why you find it so amusing. He had no wish to drag the footman out of his way, once he had got his questions answered. Melusine fetched her stool and plonked it down next to her great-aunt’s chair. "Had I not been the guilty wretch I am," he cried, bursting into an agony of tears, "she would never have died thus.
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