’ He turned to Melusine, ignoring the indignant protest
that greeted his words. His attitude toward her was purely intellectual, free of any sentimentality, utterly
selfish. ”
“I was turned shortly after the Pestilence, the plague
that they call the Black Death. Manning, “they’re a dream. For if the likeness between the
sisters was remarkable, the likeness between this girl and the poster which he
had come from studying was more remarkable still. ”
“I suppose,” said Constance, stencilling away at bright pink petals, “it’s our
lot. In Europe or in America people would have
smiled; but in Singapore—the half-way port of the world—where a human
kaleidoscope tumbles continuously east and west, no one had remarked her. Sometimes I
tremble, Anna, to think how near I came to passing through life without a single
glimpse, a moment’s revelation of this greatest and most awful of mysteries, the
mystery of primaeval nature. Winifred, accordingly, left the room, and a servant being despatched to the
nearest tavern, soon afterwards returned with a crown bowl of the ambrosian
fluid. F.
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