And the woollen-draper departed. Here was one of those Americans
who would make him breathless before sundown. ”
“But how?”
He was, she thought, a little too insistent. Lucy stared like an automaton at Michelle’s unconscious
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body, revolted at her own actions to the point of shock. Sheppard remained dissolved in tears. The hour for which, presumably, she had been created was drawing
nigh. But he was wide awake. “I’ll never be happy again! I hate you! But most of
all, what you have made me! A flesh-eating demon
cannibal, just like you! I should be dead, dead and lying at
the bottom of the sea. I charged the thief-taker, as was the
fact, with having robbed me, by means of the lad Sheppard, whom he instigated
to deed, of the very pocket-book he produced in evidence against me; but it was
of no avail—I couldn't obtain a hearing. ’
‘He doesn’t sound like a desirable parti. “Girls of sixteen do not need their own laundry
hampers. ”
Lucy looked at Michelle’s pretty face, rendered corpselike and frozen by unconsciousness.
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