Wait,
though. Madman that I am to be so!"
"Help!" shrieked Mrs. Of
course, one doesn’t like to talk about things until there are things to talk about. Suffolk
House, as Brandon's palace was denominated, was subsequently converted into a
mint by his royal brother-in-law, Henry the Eighth; and, after its demolition, and
the removal of the place of coinage to the Tower, the name was still continued to
the district in which it had been situated. ’
‘So this is the way you serve me,’ exclaimed Melusine, her quick temper
flaring as she jumped up, slammed her hands on the desk and leaned towards
him over it. ’
There was a kind of aching hunger in Gerald’s gaze. The image in the glass was not clear, for the light was not bright enough to see
properly, but the shadows of her riding habit and the hat with its waving plumes
framed a countenance that gazed serenely back at her out of long-lashed blue
eyes. She was never able to
trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed
herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love
(and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she
realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he
cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired,
for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the
sawdust in its doll. ”
Her elation teetered in mid-air for a second, then
began to flutter down around her like a badly-built house
of cards. So she brought
upon the stage the Reverend Henry Dolby, a preacher of means, worldly-wise
and kindly, cheery and rotund, who, with his wife and daughter, had arrived at
the Victoria that morning. In their happiest times, he was the most faithful and
devoted of husbands.
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