Spurling stood her negro attendant, Caliban; a hideous, misshapen, malicious monster, with broad hunched shoulders, a flat nose, and ears like those of a wild beast, a head too large for his body, and a body too long for his legs. He had not considered this aspect of the business. Yet every now and then, during the progress of the meal, his attention apparently wandered, and leaning forward he glanced covertly at Anna with a curious mixture of expressions on his face. ‘You cannot read my mind at all, monsieur. Pah! Damned Frenchified—’ ‘If you say again,’ threatened Melusine, moving to meet him like a jungle cat poised for the kill, ‘this scorn of a thing French, monsieur le baron, I shall be compelled to give you this apoplexy of which she speaks, madame. “Life—things—I don’t think her prospects now—Hopeful outlook. ’ The dimple that so fascinated Melusine peeped in her great-aunt’s cheek. ’ ‘Do you care to test that theory?’ Gerald suggested easily. I do not ask if you are entirely English, but if you say truly when you say you are at my service. “Broken-in people! I suppose the world is just all egotistical children and broken-in people. You will also become a very rich man, though I wish that the circumstances had been different. People spoke of him everywhere as a young man of great promise, a politician by instinct, a keen and careful judge of character.
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