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Updated: May 6, 2025
"Jewel of a snake-girl!" she laughed she is not thick. "Do you know the Torquilstone history?" she said, just as I was going out of the door. I came back why, I can't imagine, but it interested me. "Robert's brother half-brother, I mean the duke, is a cripple, you know, and he is toqué on one point too their blue blood.
Your brother can stay with me, quoth the girl. But when the elder brother had gone, the snake-girl turned to the younger, saying, 'Fly with me, for I love you! My promise to your brother was a trick to get him away! 'Not so! returned the young man; 'you are his promised wife, and I look on you as my sister.
Mine is most inconvenient, because he generally adores me, and at best only leaves me for a three weeks' cure at Homburg, and now and then a week at Paris; but Malcolm could be sent to the Rocky Mountains, and places like that, continuously; he is quite a sportsman." "That is not my idea of a husband," I said. "Well, what is your idea, snake-girl?" "Why do you call me 'snake-girl'?" I asked.
'What is the matter? asked the brothers; 'and why do you, so young and beautiful, sit by the river alone? Then the snake-girl answered, 'My husband was even now taking me home; and going down to the stream to look for the ferry-boat, fell to washing his face, when he slipped in, and was drowned. So I have neither husband nor relations!
We did not speak for a few minutes, then she said, quite gayly: "You have made my head better; your touch is extraordinary; in spite of all, I like you, snake-girl. You are not found on every gooseberry-bush." We kissed lightly, and I left her and went to my room.
"Oh, there you are!" she exclaimed, looking up, and puffing smoke clouds. "Sit on the bye-bye, snake-girl. I felt I must rescue you from the hoard of holies below, and I wanted to look at you in the daylight. Yes, you have extraordinary hair, and real eyelashes and complexion, too. You are a witch thing, I can see, and we shall all have to beware of you." I smiled.
Always dear and sweet, and treating me like a queen, as if I were too high for that, and having his own way, and not caring a pin for any one's opinion. And I have wanted him to make love to me often. But now I realize it is no use. Only, you sha'n't have him, snake-girl!
"Then I will smooth your hair," and I climbed up behind her and began to run over her forehead with the tips of my fingers. "You are really a pet, snake-girl," she said, "and you can't help it." "I can't help what?" "Being a witch. I knew you would hurt me when I first saw you, and I tried to protect myself by being kind to you." "Oh, dear Lady Ver!" I said, deeply moved.
Lady Ver did not speak a word on the way back, and kissed me frigidly as she went into her room; then she called out: "I am tired, snake-girl; don't think I am cross. Good-night." And so I crept up to bed. To-morrow is Saturday and my visit ends. After my lunch with Lady Merrenden, I am a wanderer on the face of the earth. Where shall I wander to?
"I have promised not to play with him; is that not enough?" I exclaimed. "Do you know, I believe it is, snake-girl," she said, and there was something wistful in her eyes; "but you are twenty, and I am past thirty, and he is a man. So one can't be too careful." Then she laughed, and I left her putting a toe into a blue satin slipper and ringing for her maid.
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