He grasped Lucilla’s elbow. "And I want to thank you, too," supplemented Ruth. Presently he began to weave a tale, sorry enough, with all the ancient claptraps and rusted platitudes. He drew compellingly upon his new characters to keep him out of this melancholy channel; but they ebbed and ebbed; he could not hold them. The brain tires of resistance, and when it meets again and again, incoherently active, the same phrases, the same ideas that it has already slain, exposed and dissected and buried, it becomes less and less energetic to repeat the operation. “But if you had?” she said. Russell burned like a beacon, but Capes illuminated by darting flashes and threw light, even if it was but momentary light, into a hundred corners that Russell left steadfastly in the shade. ’ ‘There is no need for this,’ he ventured mildly, and lifted his finger to show his own pistol was not cocked. I only arrived when everybody was coming away. Pah! Damned Frenchified—’ ‘If you say again,’ threatened Melusine, moving to meet him like a jungle cat poised for the kill, ‘this scorn of a thing French, monsieur le baron, I shall be compelled to give you this apoplexy of which she speaks, madame. He groaned, much to Melusine’s relief.
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