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Before she could object, Melusine found herself hustled back into the house
and dragged willy-nilly towards the library door, where Jack called softly. He stood a little anxious and fussy, bothered by the
responsibility of her, entirely careless of what her life was or was likely to be,
ignoring her thoughts and feelings, ignorant of every fact of importance in her
life, explaining everything he could not understand in her as nonsense and
perversity, concerned only with a terror of bothers and undesirable situations. “Do you know,” she said, “that every one is remarking how ill you look. I
declare I'm almost afraid to go to the door. At any moment, Cathy Beck could arrive
home and see them, then he would be eating dinner with
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them, almost whether he liked it or not. Ben had
scarcely adjusted his oars, when the gleam of a lantern was seen moving towards
the bank. What was the old tabby at? Unaccountably embarrassed, he cleared his
throat. A stout female stood in the aperture, an oil lamp in her hand.
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