" For the life of him, O'Higgins could not think of anything else to say. The decision had been sound. ‘We will converse in your own tongue,’ he said in French as he led her away. “And we will sail that splendor wide, From day to day together, From isle to isle of happiness Through year’s of God’s own weather. ‘Oh, my God, Melusine, what have I done?’ Melusine shook her head. If only sometimes he would grow angry at her, impatient! But his tender courtesy was unfailing; and under this would be the abiding bitterness of having mistaken gratitude for love. You’re a lady all right and tight, and nothing anyone does can take that away from you. “Are you speaking to me?” she asked calmly. As Leonardo had himself pronounced, who better than a mountebank to teach of the perils awaiting the unwary? Who better than a wastrel to demonstrate the worth of thrift? And who could instruct better in the matter of affections than one who had thrown them away? ‘If he had loved me,’ she said, in the flat tone she had learned to use to conceal her vulnerable heart, ‘he would have left me at Remenham House to live a life of an English lady. “She found my collection of witchcraft books under my bed and threw them away. This was no light conquest; nor was it a government easily maintained.
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