"Well, Lady Trafford," he said, fixing a severe look upon her. "Open my heart, Father of Mercy!" she murmured, in a humble tone, and with downcast looks, "and make me sensible of the error of my ways. Gerald took Madame’s hand and kissed the fingers with a little more warmth than punctilio demanded. Her arms and feet were uncovered, and of almost skeleton thinness. It now came to him with an added thrill how well she had told her story; simply and directly, no skipping, no wandering hither and yon: from the first hour she could remember, to the night she had fled in the proa, a clear sustained narrative. She flailed against the doctor’s grip but after what seemed an eternity of kicking and flailing, amazingly, he had not seemed weakened in the slightest by her resistance. “No!” Her thoughts had turned in a new direction. “But I am sorry,” she exclaimed. She stared down at them from a high window, peering down at their moonlit faces in the bed heavy with furs, the same bed where she had given birth to Gianfrancesco’s dead son. She creaked, groaned, and rattled; but that was only her way of yawning when she awoke.
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