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Another silver burst of laughter. But Zoe only vouchsafed a slightly contemptuous movement of her shoulders. "Well, no," said Severne, half laughing himself at the sprightly jade's smartness. "Well, then, that friend of yours that called at luncheon." Severne turned grave directly. "Yes," said he. "You said he was your lawyer, and came about a lease." "So he did." "And his name was Jackson.
"I got it out of a dead jade's stocking in a porch. She was as dead as Caesar, poor wench, and as cold as a church, with bits of ribbon sticking in her hair. This is a hard world in winter for wolves and wenches and poor rogues like me." Villon rose and made a suitable reverence. "I am called Francis Villon," he said, "a poor Master of Arts of this university.
"I knew him damn him! And then the cold gives a man fancies or the fancies give a man cold, I don't know which." "Have you any money?" asked the old man. "I have one white," returned the poet, laughing. "I got it out of a dead jade's stocking in a porch. She was as dead as Caesar, poor wench, and as cold as a church, with bits of ribbon sticking in her hair.
"I knew him damn him! And the cold gives a man fancies or the fancies give a man cold, I don't know which." "Have you any money?" asked the old man. "I have one white," returned the poet, laughing. "I got it out of a dead jade's stocking in a porch. She was as dead as Caesar, poor wench, and as cold as a church, with bits of ribbon sticking in her hair.
I assure you, little or none, till just towards the latter end, a faintish sense of it came on mechanically, from so long a struggle and frequent fret in that ever sensible part; but, in the first place, I had no taste for the person I was suffering the embraces of, on a pure mercenary account; and then, I was not entirely delighted with myself for the jade's part I was playing, whatever excuses I might plead for my being brought into it; but then this insensibility kept me so much the mistress of my mind and motions, that I could the better manage so close a counterfeit, through the whole scene of deception.
"Try it, Drummond," she cried, dropping on her knees before the open fireplace. "You will find the wire a blank." There was a hot, sudden blaze as the pile of papers from the table flared up. "There," she exclaimed. "These gambling debts were not even debts of honor. If you will call a cab, Haddon, I have reserved a table at Jade's for you and Mrs. Noble. It is a farewell.
The fact was that, for a moment, Pierston fancied he had made the sensational discovery that the One he was in search of lurked in the person of the very hostess he had conversed with, who was charming always, and particularly charming to-night; he was just feeling an incipient consternation at the possibility of such a jade's trick in his Beloved, who had once before chosen to embody herself as a married woman, though, happily, at that time with no serious results.
"I knew him damn him! And then the cold gives a man fancies or the fancies give a man cold, I don't know which." "Have you any money?" asked the old man. "I have one white," returned the poet, laughing. "I got it out of a dead jade's stocking in a porch. She was as dead as Cæsar, poor wench, and as cold as a church, with bits of ribbon sticking in her hair.
"You need hear only this one thing more: the wretch said that he thanked his patron saint that they had discovered the jade's tricks in time. And this, child, was the real belief of the whole contemptible crew!
"Why, the slippery jade's gone!" he exclaimed, staring around the room, confounded for the moment. Then recovering himself, he hurriedly left the chamber, more apprehensive lest she should get out of the manor than that the tenants should get in. "She can't be far off," he thought, pausing doubtfully in the hall.
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