The old-fashioned dress, with its series of ruffles and printed flowers, ballooned treacherously, revealing her well-turned leg in silk stockings, as it snapped against her body as a mould. ’ ‘Eh bien, you are not a saint,’ Melusine snapped. Great stone staircases leading no one knew whither, and long gloomy passages, impressed the occasional visitor with the idea that he was traversing a building of vast extent; and, though this was not the case in reality, the deception was so cleverly contrived that it seldom failed of producing the intended effect. For a time she promenaded the room. The owner of this dress had a broad weather-beaten face, small twinkling eyes, and a bushy, grizzled beard. If ever the denouement came—if ever the Hand reached him—Ruth would then understand why he had rebuffed all her tender advances. “Miss Pellissier is nothing to me except a young lady for whom I have the most profound and respectful admiration. ’ ‘Yes, but I do not wish to have a mystery. My Great Grandma 39 LeFevre had fourteen children, and my Papa said that she started at the age of thirteen. ’ ‘Sport!’ grumbled her betrothed, but he accompanied them across the ballroom all the same. Had he had the child to think of, he might have recovered from his grief at Mary’s death. ‘She would not tell me. I suppose that’s the gist of the whole thing. ” “A man does,” said Manning—“a true man, anyhow.
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