142 < 18 > THE HIGH PRICE OF FAME Michelle became a constant in those weeks, basking in the shame-ridden celebrity that had been created around Lucy. ‘He destroyed the papers?’ ‘That’s right,’ Roding said, throwing her a glance of frowning surprise, as if he had not rated her intelligence so high. The next moment, a heavy plunge told that the fugitive had been consigned to the waves. "Have a moment's patience, Sir Rowland," returned Wild; "and you shall hear. Divers plans and figures were chalked upon the walls; and the spaces between them were filled up with an almanack for the year; a godly ballad, adorned with a rude wood-cut, purporting to be "The History of Chaste Susannah;" an old print of the Seven Golden Candlesticks; an abstract of the various Acts of Parliament against drinking, swearing, and all manner of profaneness; and a view of the interior of Doctor Daniel Burgess's Presbyterian meeting-house in Russell Court, with portraits of the reverend gentleman and the principal members of his flock. What do you mean by it, eh?’ ‘But I did not send it to you,’ Melusine rejoined instantly. ‘You know perfectly well that she is the daughter of the Comtesse de St Erme. Then he was to arrest you and bring you home to me. She helped herself to the remainder of the slightly congealed bacon, and reverted to the problem of getting her luggage out of the house. Somewhere in the world there was a book clerk with a discerning mind; for he had given her the best he had. ’ ‘You see,’ Melusine explained between mouthfuls of food, ‘poor Marthe had promised to my father that she will say nothing.
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