“Please stay,” she said briefly. She had thought to wear it now, since she must look more the demoiselle. But, since I've seen the friend and companion of my childhood, Thames Darrell, I've no heart for it. Satisfied with his scrutiny, he produced a pocket-flask, and taking off the silver cup with which it was mounted, filled it with the contents of the flask, and then seizing the thin arm of the sleeper, rudely shook it. ‘Let go!’ ‘Do you take me for a fool?’ Gerald demanded. Gerald took Madame’s hand and kissed the fingers with a little more warmth than punctilio demanded. She moaned, having failed in her mission to find her mother and her God. Sheppard's dress—extremely neat and clean, but simply fashioned, and of the plainest and most unpretending material,—offered nothing assailable; and her demeanour was so humble, and her looks so modest, that—if she had been ill-looking—she might, possibly, have escaped the shafts of malice preparing to be levelled against her.
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