’
Melusine looked resentfully at the pistol. "
"Not now, my love—not now," entreated Wood. Then came the
shock of the knowledge that soon he would be going upon his way, that there
would be no one to depend upon her; and all the old loneliness came smothering
down upon her again. The nun on the threshold was of middle age and heavily
built, her back uneven from toil and her hands roughened. Fast
asleep, he is. Your husband could have told you
that. It
was only a matter of time. And when I have steeped him to the lips in vice and
depravity; when I have led him to the commission of every crime; when there is
neither retreat nor advance for him; when he has plundered his benefactor, and
broken the heart of his mother—then—but not till then, I will consign him to the
fate to which I consigned his father. If I do
not look after her, she has no one. "Manuscripts! Why, this chap is a writer, or is
trying to be. Spurlock gave his full name and tremblingly inscribed it upon the
certificate of marriage.
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