CHAPTER XXIV. Forgetting the dark thoughts of his last brush with the girl, he dropped the dagger back in his pocket, quickened his pace, and went back into the house to look for his hostess. Capes had altered scarcely at all during the interval, except for a new quality of smartness in the cut of his clothes, but Ann Veronica was nearly half an inch taller; her face was at once stronger and softer, her neck firmer and rounder, and her carriage definitely more womanly than it had been in the days of her rebellion. Gifts came from Florence: rubies and emeralds, a beautiful statue of Santa Maria for their garden grotto, a gorgeous silk tapestry of a hunting scene that alone made the price of her dowry look paltry. ’ ‘But it is imbecile,’ interrupted Melusine, struck by the impracticalities of her father’s scheme. Since she was only seventeen when she had them, she didn’t deal with it very well. You think everything is harmless and simple, and so forth. ” They heard a man’s voice outside.
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