Even this man had accepted her for “Alcide” without a moment’s question. ’ Captain Roding stared at her, his jaw dropping, while Lucilla hastily turned away, although Melusine caught the laughter in her face. She was dressed in a tattered black stuff gown, discoloured by various stains, and intended, it would seem, from the remnants of rusty crape with which it was here and there tricked out, to represent the garb of widowhood, and held in her arms a sleeping infant, swathed in the folds of a linsey-woolsey shawl. But some day she would find a place to love: there would be rosy apples on the boughs, and there would be flurries of snow blowing into her face. This man was apparently not sure whether he was Meysey Hill or not. Everywhere I went and rapped at a door I found behind it another dreadful dingy woman—another fallen queen, I suppose— dingier than the last, dirty, you know, in grain. Me, I prefer to forget that I have such a father. I am wondering whether it would not be better to tell your husband everything. Startled by the cry, as may be supposed, the attention of the whole congregation was drawn towards the quarter whence it proceeded. She was alone, and the mask of her unchanging high spirits was for the moment laid aside. Morals only begin when that is settled. By policemen one mustn’t shock. They WERE, she realized, acutely beautiful things. ’ ‘The word of whom?’ came scoffingly from the pretty lips.
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