"Poor little
creature!" he muttered, pressing it tenderly to his breast, as he grasped the rope
and clambered up to the window: "if thou hast, indeed, lost both thy parents, as
that terrible man said just now, thou art not wholly friendless and deserted, for I
myself will be a father to thee! And in memory of this dreadful night, and the
death from which I have, been the means of preserving thee, thou shalt bear the
name of THAMES DARRELL. It does sound
a little horrid to talk so much about oneself and to have views. ’
Melusine edged a little away from the portrait. She mewed weakly, “Sebastian? What have you done?
Where is Gianfrancesco? Did you kill him?”
He crossed his arms. Jonathan laughed scornfully. His physical body was predictably paralyzed with
shyness and fear of rejection, barely soothed with a series
51
of blatantly direct requests and compliments. The piece, in three
movements, was short enough anyway.
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