Ruth stared thoughtfully at the waiting coolies. The vestry was perhaps the only room in the place, except her allotted curtained off portion of the dormitory chamber that served for her cell—and she could not scandalise the nuns by having a man in there, be he never so much a servant—where Melusine could be sure of privacy. ‘You’d do the same. One of your aunts died, I believe, and the other removed to London. She was dressed in a tattered black stuff gown, discoloured by various stains, and intended, it would seem, from the remnants of rusty crape with which it was here and there tricked out, to represent the garb of widowhood, and held in her arms a sleeping infant, swathed in the folds of a linsey-woolsey shawl. Melusine approached with caution and sat warily at one end, looking up at him expectantly. It’s your first evening, and early impressions do count for so much. In the north they called her Manitou, in the south, Pabothkew. On the other hand, there was a subconscious impression that she would be able to read instantly anything unclean in a man's eye.
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