‘What do you do here?’ demanded the young lady, moving to meet him. She set her fingers in the hair and tugged, drawing him to a sitting posture and stooping so that her eyes would be on the level with his when he awoke. A wooden balcony in one of the adjoining houses was thronged with ladies, all of whom appeared to take a lively interest in the scene, and to be full of commiseration for the criminal, not, perhaps, unmixed with admiration of his appearance. He had invited himself to dine with her merely to watch her table manners. It wasn’t pretty. It is a most inauspicious start for you. She began to read, and presently she entered another world, and remained in it for two hours. "You are arrested for high treason," rejoined Wild, presenting a pistol at his head, while he drew forth a parchment,—"here is my warrant. It was not the type of household where one could come and go at all hours, for this she was glad. ’ ‘Even if they militiamen weren’t there, miss,’ cautioned her cavalier, ‘you couldn’t go marching into the house open like. Annabel watched her with wide-open, terrified eyes. And the sergeant, having carried out all Melusine’s instructions as if they had come out of his own head, went up to check on his patient, apparently at last convinced that his prisoner would not attempt to run away. She recoiled. He knew what he knew.
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