Anna rummaged about in her dressingcase, and finally drew out a letter. ‘But for my dowry, what else? One cannot expect that an Englishman will marry any jeune demoiselle without a dowry. She came originally of country stock, and had been virtually in sole charge of Melusine almost from the hour of her birth—a thankless task, as Melusine had heard her bemoan countless times, with the rider that she had carried it out with a conspicuous lack of success. He loved Ann Veronica, he said; he was so mad to have her that he defeated himself, and did crude and alarming and senseless things. The skies became brilliant; the dry monsoon was setting in. ’ Gerald shrugged. ‘Get out! Out, I say! Think I want another miserable cowardly good-for-nothing wastrel on my hands? Begone! Out of my house!’ He drove them to the door, grimly satisfied when the girl’s nerve broke. To win the contest meant you would be chosen to apprentice in magic as a priest under her tutelage.
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