After all—’
‘Yes, but I do not wish to see him,’ Melusine protested. 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. . Only I wish—I wish to-day I was a thousand times, ten
thousand times more beautiful. Bribble’s rendering of the service
—he had the sort of voice that brings out things—and was still teeming with
ideas about it when finally a wild outburst from the organ made it clear that,
whatever snivelling there might be down in the chancel, that excellent wind
instrument was, in its Mendelssohnian way, as glad as ever it could be. Tell me how you are earning your living
here, Anna—typewriting, or painting, or lady’s companion?”
“I think,” Anna said, “that the less you know about me the better. She was obliged, as she explained
continually to every one who cared to listen, to be so very particular. He was a
thin old man, a wreck in a ruined body, but nothing would induce him to stand in
any other way than as stiffly erect as possible like the soldier he had always
been, even though he was obliged to lean on his silver-handled cane to do so.
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