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Part 3
When Ann Veronica found herself in her father’s study that evening it seemed
to her for a moment as though all the events of the past six months had been a
dream. There sat Jack, evidently in the last stage of intoxication, with his collar
opened, his dress disarranged, a pipe in his mouth, a bowl of punch and a halfemptied rummer before him,—there he sat, receiving and returning, or rather
attempting to return,—for he was almost past consciousness,—the
blandishments of a couple of females, one of whom had passed her arm round
his neck, while the other leaned over the back of his chair and appeared from her
gestures to be whispering soft nonsense into his ear. ’
‘But it is imbecile,’ interrupted Melusine, struck by the impracticalities of her
father’s scheme. "It's a miserable weakness to be afraid of
bloodshed. Lucy aimed the firearm at Rhea’s chest. Haven’t I shown you over and over again that I mean you no
harm? What do I have to do?’
‘You can go away and leave me to my affairs,’ she threw at him. This was just what he
needed. There was
something which chilled even him in the cold impassivity of her features.
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