By policemen one mustn’t shock. ’ ‘Are you off your head? Think I don’t know you’re up to some mischief or other?’ Melusine feigned innocence. She is in the hall now. The Master of the Mint was accompanied by another gentleman almost as portly as himself, and quite as deliberate in his movements. There was no way of recalling the words; so she waited. Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed, in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount. And now she was discovering that even Nature was something of a liar, with her mirages and her horizons. I'll be with you in a jiffy. Every movable mirror had been placed here, to discourage vanity, and since no whitewash covered the brocaded purple wallpaper, its pervasive hue gave an added sense of heaviness to the crowded chamber. The spinster saw herself growing warm again in the morning sunshine of youth —a flaring ember before the hearth grew cold.
Video ID: TW96aWxsYS81LjAgQXBwbGVXZWJLaXQvNTM3LjM2IChLSFRNTCwgbGlrZSBHZWNrbzsgY29tcGF0aWJsZTsgQ2xhdWRlQm90LzEuMDsgK2NsYXVkZWJvdEBhbnRocm9waWMuY29tKSAtIDMuMTQ1LjQ0LjE5OSAtIDI5LTA2LTIwMjQgMDA6NTI6MjIgLSAyMTIyNDA5NjA0
This video was uploaded to mine-tec.com on 25-06-2024 12:04:17
Related resources: Ref1 - Ref2 - Ref3 - Ref4 - Ref5 - Ref6 - Ref7 - Ref8 - Ref9 - Ref10 - Ref11 - Ref12
Origin resources: Resource Map: 1 - Resource Map: 2 - Resource Map: 3 - Resource Map: 4 - Resource Map: 5 - Resource Map: 6 - Resource Map: 7 - Resource Map: 8 - Resource Map: 9