And yet, often when alone, he wondered: had McClintock been wrong, or had she ceased to care in that way? The possibility that she no longer cared should have filled him with unalloyed happiness, whereas it depressed him, cut the natural vanity of youth into shreds and tatters. Melusine got to her feet and, tucking her shoulder under his arm on the uninjured side, put her arm about him to hold his waist, and thus contrived to take most of his weight. It suited him to dampen the spirits of any who sought to impose upon him, as these relics of the loathed family of Valade seemed like to do. . —'I see how it'll be,' observed Alsatia, 'everybody'll pay his debts, and only think of such a state of things as that. He had said so. "Egad!" exclaimed Wood, "you've hit the right nail on the head, anyhow. Before our marriage there will be no life between you and the estates. If there is, it’s a mere wrapping—there’s better underneath. His countenance was pale as death, but not a muscle quivered; nor did he betray the slightest appearance of fear.
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