The horror of those few
minutes was still with her. She was an indignant queen, no doubt she was
alarmed and disgusted within limits; but she was highly excited, and there was
something, some low adventurous strain in her being, some element, subtle at
least if base, going about the rioting ways and crowded insurgent meeting-places
of her mind declaring that the whole affair was after all—they are the only words
that express it—a very great lark indeed. " 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. It is quite a descent from the clouds, isn’t it?”
“I will accept that,” Anna said, “as accounting for the surprise. Remember that he’s not at all a bad
sort, and to speak frankly, he’s your salvation. Believe me, the bitterness of it has almost departed, crushed out of
me together with much of the weariness and sorrow I brought with me here by
the nameless glory of these lonely months. Her softly
intertwined fingers became rigid. ‘It weren’t my wish, miss, I can tell you that. Let us pass,
Sir. Let us be friends—as near and close as
friends can be. She felt she must suffocate if these men did not put her down, and
for a time they would not put her down. It doesn’t matter. You got to take the world as it is, and the only
possible trade for a girl that isn’t sweated is to get hold of a man and make him
do it for her. Before Marthe will become impatient and come out. Nothing could have been farther from Melusine’s mind.
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