She stopped abruptly at the sound of his voice, and lost the thread of what she was saying. Marina doted over her pregnant daughter, adorned in fine brocades, reassuring her that it was certain to be a either a baby boy or a girl of such great beauty she would eclipse them both. Better even than these. She stood face to face with him, and his voice cut across her speech and made her stop abruptly. "A thousand pounds," he observed, gloomily, "is a heavy price to pay for doubtful secrecy, when certain silence might be so cheaply procured. Ruth could not very well object, since an air of distinction would go with Taber. Did she suppose him a possible pretender to her daughter’s hand? The girl—Dorothée, if memory served—was clearly marriageable, but he imagined most of these unhappy exiles were all but penniless. ’ ‘But, sister, I—’ ‘Get along!’ Melusine gave Jack a smile as he cast a worried look at her, and nodded dismissal. Thus, the same system of plunder was everywhere carried on.
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