‘That piece of information seemed to interest him very much. " Jack approached her. And she was about as capable of intelligent argument as a runaway steam-roller. When he said, “Let’s go and see the wart-hog,” she thought no one ever had had so quick a flow of good ideas as he; and when he explained that sugar and not buns was the talisman of popularity among the animals, she marvelled at his practical omniscience. “You can look as innocent and shocked as you please. And that would spoil it. With some difficulty, they managed to negotiate the passage with their burden and carry him out into the library. There sat Jack, evidently in the last stage of intoxication, with his collar opened, his dress disarranged, a pipe in his mouth, a bowl of punch and a halfemptied rummer before him,—there he sat, receiving and returning, or rather attempting to return,—for he was almost past consciousness,—the blandishments of a couple of females, one of whom had passed her arm round his neck, while the other leaned over the back of his chair and appeared from her gestures to be whispering soft nonsense into his ear. ’ ‘Pah!’ scoffed Melusine. Anything that might stir the sense of love And God has mocked me through it all.
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