" "Quite right, Sir James," said Austin. “If I didn’t love you better than myself,” said Capes, “I wouldn’t fence like this with you. As Leonardo had himself pronounced, who better than a mountebank to teach of the perils awaiting the unwary? Who better than a wastrel to demonstrate the worth of thrift? And who could instruct better in the matter of affections than one who had thrown them away? ‘If he had loved me,’ she said, in the flat tone she had learned to use to conceal her vulnerable heart, ‘he would have left me at Remenham House to live a life of an English lady. “I cannot say who he is,” said Ann Veronica, “but he is a married man. In fact, it had been anciently the right hand postern under the gate leading towards the city. In a fit of despondency, superinduced by drunkenness, he made away with himself; and when the body was discovered, after a lapse of some months, such was the impression produced by the spectacle —such the alarm occasioned by the crazy state of the building, and, above all, by the terror inspired by strange and unearthly noises heard during the night, which were, of course, attributed to the spirit of the suicide, that the place speedily enjoyed the reputation of being haunted, and was, consequently, entirely abandoned. But I won't be cheated of my prize. He seemed to possess a penetration and cunning beyond his years—to hide a man's judgment under a boy's mask. ‘Well, we’ll just go on up and have a look at this here passage, missie, shall we?’ ‘Have I not been saying so?’ snapped Melusine, exasperated. These little squares of coloured paper interested her mightily—hotel labels. ‘That is settled then. “You must be the Miss Pellissier of whom David has told me so much,” he said, shyly.
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