"It happened, gentlemen," pursued the Master, "on a particular occasion, about the time I've mentioned, that the Archduke of Alsatia, the Sovereign of the Savoy, and the Satrap of Salisbury Court, met by accident at the Cross Shovels. She saw the moonlit waters, the black shadow of the proa, the moon-fire that ran down the far edge of the bellying sail, the silent natives: no sound except the slapping of the outrigger and the low sibilant murmur of water falling away from the sides—and the beating of her heart. As Leonardo had himself pronounced, who better than a mountebank to teach of the perils awaiting the unwary? Who better than a wastrel to demonstrate the worth of thrift? And who could instruct better in the matter of affections than one who had thrown them away? ‘If he had loved me,’ she said, in the flat tone she had learned to use to conceal her vulnerable heart, ‘he would have left me at Remenham House to live a life of an English lady. They are not your children, they never were. And now she comprehended that the man (she had never known him by any name) knew she had surprised the look and had not resented it. Now, it won't do a bit of good to warn Spurlock. I've a child here whom I wish to convey across the water without loss of time. He tried again. I mean—I mean to do what I can. It made me wake up, and there I lay thinking of you, spending your nights up here all alone, and no one to look after you. She knew it. ‘I know, Melusine. I kept them on myself till the sight of your empty chair and the chill loneliness of it all nearly sent me mad.
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