’ ‘But you are excessively clever, Jacques,’ cried Melusine, relief flooding her. And you see, I don’t turn my back, and I am looking at you and thinking about you from top to toe. Then he sensed the trap. He pulled her from him to kiss her on the mouth and paused, looking into her face. “And think, think”—her voice sank —“of the horrible coarseness!” “What coarseness?” said Ann Veronica. ” “She wanted to become a vampire. She doesn't love you; she hasn't the least idea what it means beyond what she has read in novels. I’m glad you could come. When I have traversed the streets a houseless wanderer, driven with curses from every door where I have solicited alms, and with blows from every gateway where I have sought shelter,—when I have crept into some deserted building, and stretched my wearied limbs upon a bulk, in the vain hope of repose,—or, worse than all, when, frenzied with want, I have yielded to horrible temptation, and earned a meal in the only way I could earn one,—when I have felt, at times like these, my heart sink within me, I have drank of this drink, and have at once forgotten my cares, my poverty, my guilt. "Has he escaped?" asked the thief-taker, faintly. Someone, it appeared, was trying to profit from that fact. He looked half at her and half at the sky. His quiet, kindly smile implied his serene disbelief in any confessible thing. The church was crowded to excess by the numbers eager to witness the ceremony; and as soon as it was over the wedded pair were followed to the carriage, and the loudest benedictions uttered for their happiness. "I could have sworn I saw him enter this passage.
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