“Thought so. ‘And what the devil do you mean by demanding that I wait on you here? D’you
think I haven’t enough to do handling that caper-witted female’s affairs, without
dancing attendance on you?’
‘Don’t be cross,’ begged Lucilla, much to Melusine’s disgust. But I was sorry for poor Jack—as I
am still, and hoped he would mend. ‘The credentials, milor’,’ he ventured. Could she understand what she was
talking about? Luckily it was a second-class carriage and the ordinary fellowtravellers were not there. You are afraid of the
warmth in your blood. “Did you—did you really think that they would take you for a Frenchman?” she
exclaimed. ‘That,’ he said stonily, ‘is yet another point over which we fell out. Lucy could feel blood welling underneath a bump half
swelling and already half-healing on her scalp. Maybe half a
year, counting this summer. ‘Good God!’ uttered Roding. What a pity! But why?
There was no way over this puzzle, nor under it, nor around it: that men should
drink, knowing the inevitable payment. Some of the lunatics were rattling their chains; some
shrieking; some singing; some beating with frantic violence against the doors. " At the door of this tavern, which was situated on the left
of the street, not more than a hundred yards distant from the church, the bell of
which began to toll as soon as the procession came in sight, the cart drew up, and
the whole cavalcade halted.
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