’ ‘So did your business about marrying an Englishman seem to me,’ Gerald returned. “I don’t see that his being a good sort matters. How did you meet him?’ ‘He was wounded and came to the convent for sanctuary,’ Melusine told him, stung by his criticism into revealing more than she had intended. 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. “A lot of these people will be going presently. "Let us sit here," she said, indicating the white sand bordering the lagoon; "and in a minute or two you will see something quite wonderful. “I have not quarrelled with her. It was a copy of the pencil sketch taken of him nine years ago by Winifred, and awakened a thousand tender recollections. The service had not proceeded far, when she was greatly disturbed by the entrance of a person who placed himself opposite her, and sought to attract her attention by a number of little arts, surveying her, as he did so, with a very impudent and offensive stare. Anything else that was said she now regarded only as an aspect of or diversion from that. Sheila wouldn’t allow me to date a boy even if he was only fifteen—I mean sixteen, like I am, you see. "But, what of that? It'll be a lesson to him in future, and will show him the folly of doing a good-natured action!" But perceiving that his companion did not relish his pleasantry and fearing that his sympathy for the carpenter's situation might betray him into some act of imprudence, Jonathan, without further remark, and by way of putting an end to the discussion, let himself drop through the roof.
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