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“I hope you realize,” he went on, in a lower and less assured tone, “that I am in earnest—very much in earnest. It was her figure, her style of dress, her manner of arranging the hair. Tell me I haven’t heard. He was in a position to help her. Take it, if I die. The bed-and table-linen were of the finest texture. The theme was a masquerade. She thought her niece very hard and very self-possessed and self-confident. Still, that leaves over a million shrines short, not reckoning widows who re-marry. She kept pausing in her work and regarding it, and when Capes came round to her, she first put her hand in her lap and then rather awkwardly in front of him. South America was big; but ten thousand islands, scattered all over the biggest ocean on the map! Nearly all of them clear of the ship lanes and beaten tracks! The best thing he could do would be to call up the Quai d'Orsay and turn over the job to Lecocq. Still, it was true about men. Was there anything at all in those locked rooms of her aunt’s mind? Were they fully furnished and only a little dusty and cobwebby and in need of an airing, or were they stark vacancy except, perhaps, for a cockroach or so or the gnawing of a rat? What was the mental equivalent of a rat’s gnawing? The image was going astray. Melusine dashed them away, but they kept on coming.
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