’ Gerald did not speak, but there was a look in his face that made Melusine glad she had at last had the courage to confide in him. Stopping before each door, they took up the plates of the locks, examined the ponderous bolts, and were struck with the utmost astonishment at what they beheld. Then Melusine jumped back into the fencer’s pose, on guard, the point of the wicked blade directed towards her enemy. No other man should touch her; she was Hoddy's, body and soul, in this life and after. Monsieur Valade heaved a gusty sigh, and Gerald, with heavy diplomacy and a forced heartiness of manner, turned the subject. Against the sinister, the threatening, monstrous inhumanity of the limitless city, there was nothing now but this supreme, ugly fact of a pursuit— the pursuit of the undesired, persistent male. She rambles continually about Jack, and her husband, and that wretch Jonathan, to whom, as far as can be gathered from her wild ravings, she attributes all her misery.
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