She had taken care he should have this momentous talk with her on a garden-seat commanded by the windows of the house. ‘Do you mean to tell me,’ enquired the captain at length, ‘that you have had the infernal audacity, the—the gall, the—the— Gad, it’s an outrage! You’ve stolen a horse from a priest?’ ‘I did not steal it,’ protested Melusine hotly. ‘His wife? Pah!’ ‘You’re saying she is not his wife?’ ‘I am saying nothing. It’s not far from twilight. This request, however, was refused; and he was told that the only way in which he could entitle himself to his Majesty's clemency would be by discovering who had abetted him in his last escape; the strongest suspicions being entertained that he had not affected it alone. ’ ‘Not, I trust, Nicholas Charvill?’ ‘Hardly. ” She nodded. ’ She eyed him. “Very good,” he said. "Well, I'm not far from the mark. The drunken beachcombers; the one-sided education; the utter loneliness of a white child without playfellows, human or animal, without fairy stories, who for days was left alone while the father visited neighbouring islands, these pictures sank far below their actual importance. The agony on the sands now ceased to puzzle her. She thought of them as fools, but had been sorry to see them go.
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