His features were regular, and finely-formed; his complexion bright and blooming,—a little shaded, however, by travel and exposure to the sun; and, with a praiseworthy contempt for the universal and preposterous fashion then prevailing, of substituting a peruke for the natural covering of the head, he allowed his own dark-brown hair to fall over his shoulders in ringlets as luxuriant as those that distinguished the court gallant in Charles the Second's days—a fashion, which we do not despair of seeing revived in our own days. It might have been the moon, or the phosphorescence of the broken water, or it might have been his abysmal loneliness; but suddenly he caught her face in his hands and kissed her on the mouth. It was the same Bios whose nature and drift and ways and methods and aspects engaged them all. Gianfrancesco had been talked into the arrangement only because the drivers that had handled the job for generations were sick or dead. “Miserable bounder,” he murmured. She gloried in it: he needed her. ‘I recall my father speaking of you as a Remenham. ’ She ended on a note of sheer frustration, clenched fists beating the air. “My dear Miss Stanley, when I talked to you the other afternoon of work and politics and such-like things, my mind was all the time resenting it beyond measure. "All right. ’ ‘Yes, that is what he said,’ agreed Melusine, pleased to find him of so ready an understanding. “Be so good as to stand away from that door at once, sir,” Brendon ordered.
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