CHAPTER XIII. ’ ‘Lady Bicknacre too,’ said Lucilla, a delight in her voice that grated on Melusine. Goopes’s: “Advanced people,” she said, with an air of great elucidation, “tend to GENERALIZE love. Seldom they molested a woman who appeared to know where she was going and who kept her glance resolutely to the fore. I believe so because the 220 stories say his head was cut off by a tribe of witches and yet it still remained alive for many years after his decapitation. A man's laced hat,—whether adopted from the caprice of the moment, or habitually worn, we are unable to state,—cocked knowingly on her head, harmonized with her masculine appearance. ‘What has that to say to anything?’ ‘Nothing at all,’ smiled Lucy nervously. The old man Pottiswick, still grumbling, much to Melusine’s disgust, had gone on his errand to his daughter’s house some two miles distant. This young man, whose features, though rather plain and coarse, bore the strongest impress of genius, and who had a dark gray, penetrating eye, so quick in its glances that it seemed to survey twenty objects at once, and yet only to fasten upon one, bore the honoured name of William Hogarth. ‘And for you, monsieur le major, it will be well if you do not make me a shock like this again. During all this time, he had never quitted the iron bar, and he now grasped it with the firm determination of selling his life dearly, if he met with any opposition.
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