He hesitated. Grandmothers and grandfathers and uncles and aunts … to love and to coddle lonely little girls. Too many. They were in many respects so right; she clung to that, and shirked more and more the paradoxical conviction that they were also somehow, and even in direct relation to that rightness, absurd. He wore a French military undress of the period, with high jack-boots, and a laced hat; and, though his attire indicated no particular rank, he had completely the air of a person of distinction. And, turning at the touch, he perceived Sheppard's glance fixed meaningly upon him. ’ Melusine bubbled over and warmth rose in Gerald’s chest. Capes and her father stood up, and her father made a belated movement toward the curtain. Suddenly he came to a stop, his mouth agape. ” The full significance of her words did not instantly appear to him. A few words passed between him and the thief-taker as the latter came up; after which, all the party—with the exception of Quilt, who was left on shore —embarked within the wherry, which was pushed from the strand and rowed swiftly along the stream—for the tide was in its favour—by a couple of watermen. ’ Miss Froxfield regarded him in some interest.
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