" "Of course," rejoined Kneebone, a little maliciously, "but that's easily accounted for. Gifts came from Florence: rubies and emeralds, a beautiful statue of Santa Maria for their garden grotto, a gorgeous silk tapestry of a hunting scene that alone made the price of her dowry look paltry. Your mother arrived, and she knew me for what I was, she whispered to me curses against werewolves and vampires when I was alone in a room with her. ‘Does Charvill know that this Melusine of yours is here?’ The question distracted Gerald. “Oh, John, please!” “You are already leaving me. So long as matters remain as they are, and they found me, there would be no shame for Ruth. Kneebone, having been alarmed by something in the widow's look before her feelings found vent in the manner above described, thrust his hand instinctively into his coat in search of his pocket-book,—about the security of which, as it contained several letters and documents implicating himself and others in the Jacobite plot, he was, not unnaturally, solicitous,—and finding it gone, he felt certain he had been robbed. “Suppose, for example, I go to this dance?” “You won’t. The lady's name's engraved inside, but so small I can scarcely read it. As he hesitated, unable to make up his mind what to do for the best, a heavy rumbling on the cobbles penetrated his absorption. It’s too valiant, Miss Stanley, too valiant altogether!” Ann Veronica meditated. Next to the receiver was a gang of housebreakers, laughing over their exploits, and planning fresh depredations; and next to the housebreakers came two gallant-looking gentlemen in long periwigs and riding-dresses, and equipped in all other respects for the road, with a roast fowl and a bottle of wine before them. Sanguine they were not.
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