In truth, she
would quite like to have him rescue her. It may be well, therefore, before proceeding farther, to
describe it more minutely. Contrasted with the confused
movement and presences of a Fabian meeting, or the inexplicable enthusiasm
behind the suffrage demand, with the speeches that were partly egotistical
displays, partly artful manoeuvres, and partly incoherent cries for unsoundly
formulated ends, compared with the comings and goings of audiences and
supporters that were like the eddy-driven drift of paper in the street, this long,
quiet, methodical chamber shone like a star seen through clouds. The thousand voices which a few moments before had
been so clamorous were now hushed. She was dressed in a little white frock,
with a very long body, and very short sleeves, which looked (from a certain
fullness about the hips,) as if it was intended to be worn with a hoop. Manning called. "He must be somewhere hereabouts," cried one of the horsemen, dismounting. It was wrenched away
from Melusine’s clutching hands. After all, where prayer fails, a
pistol is bound to succeed. But the figure was evidently too
intent on peering within the ballroom to pay any attention to what might be
occurring outside.
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