’ Melusine’s heart leapt, raced for a moment, and suddenly dropped again. "What!" she exclaimed, almost choked with passion,—"I advised you to burthen yourself with that idle and good-for-nothing pauper, who'm you ought rather to send to the workhouse than maintain at your own expense, did I! I advised you to take him as an apprentice; and, so far from getting the regular fee with him, to give him a salary? I advised you to feed him, and clothe him, and treat him like his betters; to put up with his insolence, and wink at his faults? I counselled all this, I suppose. “Come in here a moment, will you, Blanche,” he said. It was so difficult to put precisely. ’ All at once Mrs Sindlesham looked across at him, a sharp question in her eyes. The stranger looked at him as if strongly disposed to chastise his impertinence. “What’s wrong with having witchcraft books? Is she afraid that the Princeton Hill villagers will burn you at stake?” Lucy asked sarcastically. ’ Obediently, Gerald rose and walked to the other end of the parlour. She had hardly noticed the loss of her dagger, so strong had been the waves of relief that attacked her on hearing that Jack had returned from death’s door. An old man with a bent back who limped in, slow and stiff, leaning heavily on a cane. To walk beside him, dressed akin to him, rucksacked and companionable, was bliss in itself; each step she took was like stepping once more across the threshold of heaven.
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