" CHAPTER IX. ‘I do not know your Gérard. After a while, he raised his eyes; and, if their glance could have been witnessed at the moment, it could not have been easily forgotten. Recovering herself, Melusine tucked the weapons out of sight, down into the deep holsters hidden under the petticoat of her riding habit, and went back into the house where Martha awaited her in some impatience. Wood will be intercepted. ‘But of course. ’ ‘Then you will not be disappointed. We shall be torn in pieces if we are discovered. We have known men who have come here for no other purpose than to prove their unassailable virtue, who have strode into the arena of temptation, waving the—the what is it—the white flower of a blameless life, only to exchange it with marvellous facility for the violets of the Parisienne. She walked through the walls. To reach the Sha-mien—and particularly the Hotel Victoria—one crossed a narrow canal, always choked with rocking sampans over and about which swarmed yellow men and women and children in varied shades of faded blue cotton. You did not learn that in a convent. ’ ‘Did no one know, then?’ ‘No, for the vicomte, we learned later, wrote to General Lord Charvill in pursuit of his sister. We ourselves have been similarly circumstanced. Jim is up to the neck in Mahatmas and Theosophy and Higher Thought and rot—writes letters worse than Alice.
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