"Sign this," he said, pushing the document towards Sir Rowland. ‘Dear me. To have you is all important. Any man
might have endeavoured to protect himself in this fashion, a man with no one to
care, with an unnameable terror at the thought (as if it mattered!) of being buried
in alien earth, far from the familiar places he loved. She read voraciously, and presently, because of her aunt’s censorship, she
took to smuggling any books she thought might be prohibited instead of bringing
them home openly, and she went to the theatre whenever she could produce an
acceptable friend to accompany her. "Only Jack's two wives—Edgeworth Bess and Poll Maggot," replied Austin,
laughing. He was conscious of a peculiar pleasure in
sitting there and thinking of those few hours which already were becoming to
assume a definite importance in his mind—a place curiously apart from those
dry-as-dust images which had become the gods of his prosaic life. ‘Can’t you trust me a little?’
His touch sent shivers running through her, but Melusine did not withdraw her
hand. Maggot, as well as her
companion Edgeworth Bess, was showily dressed; nor did either of them disdain
the aid supposed to be lent to a fair skin by the contents of the patchbox. Only in man is the
male made the most important. So I dare say I was christened Jack. There was a gallows erected, and a great mob round it—thousands of
people, and all with white faces like corpses. She thought of him as
always courteous and helpful, as realizing, indeed, his ideal of protection and
service, as chivalrously leaving her free to live her own life, rejoicing with an
infinite generosity in every detail of her irresponsive being. CHAPTER XX.
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