But Gerald wouldn’t hear of it. He had known she would be shocked, but he was equally certain Melusine would have refused to see her grandfather had she been forewarned. He was there concealed, waiting her return. He walked through a wide open archway, curtained with deep-blue curtains, into the apartment that served as a reception-room. When he said, “Let’s go and see the wart-hog,” she thought no one ever had had so quick a flow of good ideas as he; and when he explained that sugar and not buns was the talisman of popularity among the animals, she marvelled at his practical omniscience. The road from Surbiton and Epsom ran under the arch, and, like a bright fungoid growth in the ditch, there was now appearing a sort of fourth estate of little redand-white rough-cast villas, with meretricious gables and very brassy windowblinds. Sebastian snorted, “If it isn’t that the pot calling the kettle black!” “Your house is host to the lowest forms of life, those without morals! I will no longer allow my children to live 210 in such a house. They hunted up shady nooks and went to sleep; but promptly at four they would be at the office, ready for barter. And so gentle as the poor creature is, when she's not in her wild fits—it would melt a heart of stone to see her. “What about blood banks? Have you ever tried them?” “I don’t just take blood, John. ’ ‘Why should I?’ ‘Because I can’t live without you!’ ‘That is your own affair, and—’ Melusine broke off, staring at him, shocked realisation kicking in her gut. The cheek-bones were prominent: the nose slightly depressed, with rather wide nostrils; the chin narrow, but well-formed; the forehead broad and lofty; and he possessed such an extraordinary flexibility of muscle in this region, that he could elevate his eyebrows at pleasure up to the very verge of his sleek and shining black hair, which, being closely cropped, to admit of his occasionally wearing a wig, gave a singular bullet-shape to his head. She approached a soft-looking bespectacled girl she had seen once in the halls and noticed for her haunted look. Perhaps an hour passed before she laid aside the book.
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