"Are
you a poltroon, after all?"
"That's it! I ought to have died that night!"
"Or is there a taint of insanity in your family history? Alone and practically
penniless like yourself! You weren't even stirred by gratitude. He was painfully in earnest, too. "I came to see Jack Sheppard, and I won't
go till you point him out to me. ” She slipped it on her finger, and
added, in a voice she tried to make matter-of-fact: “It was given to me last
week. ’
Melusine gave it up. An electric light flashed out from the wall. Then as she drew nearer paint showed upon her face,
and a harsh purpose behind the quiet expression of her open countenance, and a
sort of unreality in her splendor betrayed itself for which Ann Veronica could not
recall the right word—a word, half understood, that lurked and hid in her mind,
the word “meretricious. "
The stranger said nothing, but hastily brushed away a tear. “A bad thing
for me when that legacy came.
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