’ Chapter Nine As she devoured the simple meal of bread and cheese, and several slices of cold roast beef, the whole washed down with a poor sort of coffee, Melusine listened with avid interest to the details of her mother’s life as revealed by the exclamatory conversation of Joan Ibstock. ” “I suppose not. Vorsack would just have to live with it. The lantern was on the ground inside, ready. There was no reason why she shouldn’t be his restrained and dignified friend. But then—Oh! Madam, there are moments—moments of darkness, which overshadow a whole existence—in the lives of the poor houseless wretches who traverse the streets, when reason is well-nigh benighted; when the horrible promptings of despair can, alone, be listened to; and when vice itself assumes the aspect of virtue. Some of the lunatics were rattling their chains; some shrieking; some singing; some beating with frantic violence against the doors. But out of a belated regard for her father she wrote the surname of some one else. ” They left the restaurant just as the rain slowed to a dull trickle, the fury of the storm exhausted, having left mirror puddles in its wake. She lay still for a long time, and her mind resumed at a more tolerable pace. “I am the most foolish of men. The Closing Scene 472 EPOCH THE FIRST. Sheppard did not make her appearance quite so soon as he expected, the carpenter became a little fidgetty, and, having succeeded in tranquillizing the child, he thought proper to walk so far down the entry as would enable him to reconnoitre the upper windows of the house. He was vaguely uneasy; he knew not what about. But he was always forcing her to say and do such unexpectedly conclusive things.
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