I could not
become an Oracle. ’
‘Then do it,’ Melusine said with impatience. Please don’t tell anyone,
mister. I have held people spellbound—in confidence, so that we
may be sure of its spreading like wildfire—with an account of all Melusine’s
activities, and—’
Horror filled Melusine and she jumped up. "Begone! or I fire!" he cried. "I did see them on the platform of the bridge—the child and
his preserver! They were not struck by the fallen ruin, nor whelmed in the
roaring flood,—or, if they were, they escaped as I escaped. Some had the dignity and the
aloofness of a rock in the sea; and others were as the polished pebbles on the
sands—one saw the difference of pebble from pebble only by close scrutiny. "Thank Heaven! I'm not
basely born. A woman is
supposed to know when a man is in love with her. It was impossible. Quarter-staves, bludgeons,
brown-bills, lanterns, swords, and sconces were alike shivered; and, to judge
from the sullied state of their habiliments, the claret must have been tapped
pretty freely. He ignored her protests in order to pursue some impressive line of his own. Until she had left her island, what
she heard and what she saw were truths. The youth of them! And what was he
going to do when they left his island? What would Donald McClintock be doing
with himself, when youth left the island, never more to return?
Ruth was thrilling with joy. He—he has rather a poor opinion of his contemporaries.
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