It would seem, from the attention which he evidently bestowed upon the hidden
and complex machinery of the grand system of villany at work around him, that
his chief object in taking up his quarters in the Mint, must have been to obtain
some private information respecting the habits and practices of its inhabitants, to
be turned to account hereafter. She wanted to be on with
the show. ‘You are rude, and stupide, and
altogether a person with whom I do not wish to speak. Quite!”
He sat in the arm-chair and took tea, and consumed several of the extra cakes
which she had sent out for and talked to her and expressed himself, looking very
earnestly at her with his deep-set eyes, and carefully avoiding any crumbs on his
mustache the while. Sheila wouldn’t allow me to date a
boy even if he was only fifteen—I mean sixteen, like I
am, you see. Lad, that fuddles me!"
"Did you bring me down here to crucify me?" cried Spurlock, in passionate
rebellion. ‘How could you possibly know it?’
‘I know it,’ Lucilla told him frostily, ‘because Dorothée told me that Madame
Valade went off with Gerald positively purring in her ear—which is a thing he
never does—and came back with him looking like the cat after cream.
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