"Ah!" cried Wild, laying down his pen and looking up with a smile of
satisfaction. He loved Ann Veronica, he said; he was so mad to have her
that he defeated himself, and did crude and alarming and senseless things. My
name is Ferringhall—Sir John Ferringhall. She
knew that the primary reason lay in the fact that both she
and Chen were physically attractive people. "
"So she was," replied the woollen-draper, helping himself to an enormous pinch
of snuff with the air of a man who does not dislike to be rallied about his
gallantry,—"so she was. What was his
astonishment to recognise in the few words they uttered the voices of Kneebone
and Winifred! The latter was apparently in great distress, and the former seemed
to be using his best efforts to relieve her anxiety. For
she needed him. Presently. "
"Be it so," replied the knight, who saw the force of this reasoning. Leastways, she’d be your greataunt, wouldn’t she?’
Astounded, Melusine was just about to demand further information, when a
commotion outside the room interrupted her. The
splendid voices sang on from phase to phase of love’s unfolding, the ship drove
across the sea to the beating rhythm of the rowers. Plain, wide-mouthed, freckled, and
ugly, she was an instantly jealous creature, her saving
grace that she took no pains to mask her extreme dislike
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of petite, pretty girls.
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