‘I suppose this is the cavalier you had with you when you—er—attended the ball the other night?’ ‘Jacques is very useful to me,’ Melusine confirmed, bestowing that same radiant smile on the young man, whose features were instantly suffused with scarlet. “I am sorry,” she said, “if you find the likeness unsatisfactory. Dunstable’s contributions to the conversation were entirely in the form of nods; whenever Alderman Dunstable praised or blamed she nodded twice or thrice, according to the requirements of his emphasis. But the offences I have committed are venial in comparison with what I should commit were I to wed your father. And to think that man got it all out of the poorest little love-story for a respectable titled lady! Have you read of it?” “Never. Of this man Kneebone resolved to go in pursuit; and leaving Jack in charge of the constable, he proceeded to the small inn,—which bore then, as it bears now, the name of the Six Bells,—where, summoning the hostler, his steed was instantly brought him, and, springing on its back, he rode away at full speed. She sat in deep thought for a moment or two, and then nodding briskly, dipped the pen in the ink again and began to write.
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