” He stuttered. ‘One of your countrymen, perhaps?’ The girl clammed up, the moon of her white face staring up at him in the darkness. "No, Rollo; not this afternoon. But a human being who is young and clean, as you are, is apt to ennoble—or explain away. ‘Now then, my girl, why the long face?’ Melusine had no hesitation in placing her trouble before her old nurse, for it was Martha who had made her aware of her true history. But I waited in vain. "I allude to an individual, who has since acquired an infamous notoriety as a thief-taker; but who, in those days, was himself the associate of thieves. It was a large, littered, self-forgetful apartment, decorated with unframed charcoal sketches by various incipient masters; and an open bookcase, surmounted by plaster casts and the half of a human skull, displayed an odd miscellany of books—Shaw and Swinburne, Tom Jones, Fabian Essays, Pope and Dumas, cheek by jowl. ’ ‘Lady Bicknacre too,’ said Lucilla, a delight in her voice that grated on Melusine. Partly, from your confessor; partly, from other sources. O'Higgins was all that the doctor had imagined a detective to be: a bulky policeman in civilian clothes.
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