To buy the freedom of a poor little Chinese slave-girl! For what was the sing-song girl but a slave, the double slave of custom and of men? Ruth wanted to know keenly what had impelled the idea. “There is something to be said for the lady-like theory after all,” she admitted. “But, of course, she may have come from one of the other flats. A little Madeira seemed to recover her enough to resume the discussion. She was leaning over him and he smelled her like he had never smelled anyone before. But did Gerald trouble himself about her? No. And, whatever you may think, I assure you, Jack's a downright goodnatured fellow. She pulled down her veil and made her way to the door. ” And then he flashed his whole conception of the relations of men and women upon her in one astonishing question. ‘Beg pardon, miss, but I’m told as how—’ She broke off, her eyes widening, her jaw dropping open. That did not sound like the name the young man had offered in the tower of the water-clock. If she mentioned Ramage he might have a fit—anything might happen. ” “I wish,” said Ann Veronica, with sudden anger, “that you could know what it is to live in a pit!” She stood up as she spoke, and put down her cup beside Miss Garvice’s. Such pretty manners, she thought.
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