“I expected to stay with a relation, but I found that their arrangements did not allow of it. ’ ‘Lucilla,’ gasped Hilary, his cheeks reddening with wrath. Throwing down the pencil, she snatched up a piece of India-rubber, and exclaiming,—"It isn't at all like him! it isn't half handsome enough!" was about to efface the sketch, when Thames darted into the room. It was very pretty and very dainty while it lasted, but we played it with our eyes open, and we perfectly understood the game—both of us. ‘You see, it is that I am a female, and you all are men. ’ ‘You mean monsieur le baron, the General Charvill, my grandfather?’ Melusine laid aside on the table the letter she had been studying and turned so that the frame of her nun’s wimple no longer obscured her view. The curtains which she had left drawn were open, and the electric lights were turned on. Rattles were sprung; lanterns lighted, and hoisted at the end of poles; windows thrown open; doors unbarred; and, as if by magic, the street was instantaneously filled with a crowd of persons of both sexes, armed with such weapons as came most readily to hand, and dressed in such garments as could be most easily slipped on.
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