She began to read, and presently she entered another world, and remained in it for two hours. So many things she saw that her interest stumbled rather than leaped from object to object. Beyond the hatch, an angle, formed by a projection in the wall of some three or four feet, served to hide a door conducting to the interior of the prison. His features were regular, and finely-formed; his complexion bright and blooming,—a little shaded, however, by travel and exposure to the sun; and, with a praiseworthy contempt for the universal and preposterous fashion then prevailing, of substituting a peruke for the natural covering of the head, he allowed his own dark-brown hair to fall over his shoulders in ringlets as luxuriant as those that distinguished the court gallant in Charles the Second's days—a fashion, which we do not despair of seeing revived in our own days. She despises me, I suppose. She never touched the manuscript with pencil, but jotted down her notes on slips of paper and left them where he might easily find them. Framed in one of the square ports of the packet was a face which reminded Ah Cum of a Japanese theatrical mask. Melusine fetched her stool and plonked it down next to her great-aunt’s chair. The guests congregated within the night-cellar were, in fact, little better than thieves; but thieves who confined their depredations almost exclusively to the vessels lying in the pool and docks of the river. A tarnish of constraint that had recently spread over her intercourse with Capes vanished again.
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