She could now see to read; so she stirred the manuscript about until she came upon the first page. Sebastian was always a man who felt the need to surround himself with the trappings of the finer life. To reach the Sha-mien—and particularly the Hotel Victoria—one crossed a narrow canal, always choked with rocking sampans over and about which swarmed yellow men and women and children in varied shades of faded blue cotton. ‘If the boy had sense enough to send word to Gerald as he was told to do, then God be praised!’ ‘Parbleu,’ broke from Melusine, as she turned on him instead. 266 She peered up at him. The chain, which had been partially cut through, snapped near the staple. From the first of these alighted Thames, or, as he must now be styled, the Marquis de Chatillon. He dressed rather after the fashion of the West End than the City, and affected a cultured urbanity that somehow disconcerted and always annoyed Ann Veronica’s father extremely. ‘What are you going to do now, child?’ Melusine sighed away the last of her distress.
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