Crossword-Solution: MELUSINE 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Elsie Venner, through an experience of her mother's, inherits the nature of the serpent, so the novel is as far from common life as the tale of "Melusine," or any other echidna.

Sometimes the nymph is a wicked siren like the Lorelei; but in many of these tales she weds an earthly lover, and deserts him after a time, sometimes on finding her diving cap, or her seal-skin garment, which restores her to her ocean kindred, sometimes on his intruding on her while she is under a periodical transformation, as with the fairy Melusine, more rarely if he becomes unfaithful.

After a successful appearance in a play called _Melusine_, Nana suddenly left Paris and went to the East.

Now for the seated pair, one on either side of Philippa: they are Melusine, who has a long neck and a very demure look, and a great deal of hair, and Victoria, who, having just tossed back her head, lifts her chin and glimmers at you through half-shut eyes.

Jolly party you were, my dear--jolly old plump papa, rosy mamma--and Philippa like a young tree, and Melusine and Hawise bright as apples; and then Vicky and you--little dears, you were.