" "Bah!" returned the woollen-draper. . His idea was to get behind this sustained listlessness. What had she so nearly said? She had almost spoken a name—and quickly withdrawn it. ‘Flirting, Gerald? A new come-out for you. ‘At me,’ she uttered, holding her own pistol high and aiming it steadily. At the back of her mind, Melusine noted an odd look in the boy’s face, but there was no time to explore it. ’ ‘In a somewhat roundabout fashion, if you ask me,’ came in a mutter from her old nurse, very much in her usual style. This was an imitation of the noises made by the carnivora at the Zoological Gardens at feeding-time; the idea was taken up by prisoner after prisoner until the whole place was alive with barkings, yappings, roarings, pelican chatterings, and feline yowlings, interspersed with shrieks of hysterical laughter. " "That's easily said. This obstacle, which appeared to preclude the possibility of egress in that quarter, was speedily got rid of. ’ ‘In one little minute,’ she said, snapping her fingers, ‘it is over and voilà tout. Wood, now more buxom and more gorgeously arrayed than ever,—as well as a young and beautiful female, in whom he was at no loss to recognise the carpenter's daughter.
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