‘As to that, I am at this moment altogether displeased with Gérard, you understand,’ Melusine temporised. "You are a paragon of prudence and discretion," rejoined the woollen-draper, drawing his chair closer to hers. He was really very proud of her, and extraordinarily angry and resentful at the innocent and audacious selfreliance that seemed to intimate her sense of absolute independence of him, her absolute security without him. To-morrow night —or rather to-night, for we are fast verging on another day—I propose to lure him out of the house by a stratagem which I am sure will prove infallible; and, then, what so easy as to knock him on the head. She admired his backside as he fetched a blue towel from his bathroom. There was first the Avenue, which ran in a consciously elegant curve from the railway station into an undeveloped wilderness of agriculture, with big, yellow brick villas on either side, and then there was the pavement, the little clump of shops about the postoffice, and under the railway arch was a congestion of workmen’s dwellings. ’ ‘But you are excessively clever, Jacques,’ cried Melusine, relief flooding her. " Sir Rowland looked at her for a moment, as if he meditated some terrible reply. Would you like to borrow some of my clothes? I think we're about the same size. Attracted by the odour of the latter dainty, a hungry cat had contrived to scratch open the paper in which it was wrapped, displaying the following words in large characters:—"THE HISTORY OF THE FOUR KINGS, OR CHILD'S BEST GUIDE TO THE GALLOWS. CHAPTER XVIII The doctor reached for the key and studied it sombrely. He said nothing, even though it was not raining.
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