The latter haughtily returned his salutation, and flung himself, as if exhausted, into a chair. “I’m damned if I’ll believe it,” he muttered to himself savagely. ’ ‘It is you who is absurd,’ countered Melusine, the spark returning to her eye. "And now, widow," he continued, "attend to the next verse, for it consarns a friend o' yours. For a nun at night it is less dangerous than for the jeune demoiselle. During all their long comradeship he had never so much as ventured to hold her fingers. She crouched beneath a stump, her extremities twitching as the sun set orange and blue beyond the lace of iron-black trees. They were things I had meant very much to talk to you about, so that I went home vexed and disappointed, and only relieved myself a little by writing a few verses. I will be up with my wife and daughter after lunch. There's another lad at the gate waiting for him—the same who was here just now, that Sir Rowland was speaking of, who fastened up the jewelcase for her ladyship. There are men in the Lowndean who laugh at him—simply laugh at him. Sheppard's good health, and success to him!" Baptist's toast was received with loud applause, and, as he sat down amid the cheers of the company, and a universal clatter of mugs and glasses, the widow's view was no longer obstructed. “It is not an easy matter,” he said, “for me to offer you an altogether adequate explanation.
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