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. ” Michelle replied. "
"I'm convinced of it," replied Shotbolt; "and it was on that very account I came
here. Then as she drew nearer paint showed upon her face,
and a harsh purpose behind the quiet expression of her open countenance, and a
sort of unreality in her splendor betrayed itself for which Ann Veronica could not
recall the right word—a word, half understood, that lurked and hid in her mind,
the word “meretricious. ‘Got you!’
‘You!’ Stunned, Melusine moved quickly away from the tell-tale bookshelf. Disgusted him!
“For men policemen never blush;
A man in all things scores so much. D'ye hear. What had urged her to wrench loose and fly was the guarding instinct of
the good woman. The light would betray us. She tied the obi clumsily about her waist,
then gently laid her hand on the bowed head. "Was there any other
woman back there in the States?"
"Nary a female. "There he
is!"
"I fear not," said her father, with a doubtful shake of the head. Yet every now and then, during
the progress of the meal, his attention apparently wandered, and leaning forward
he glanced covertly at Anna with a curious mixture of expressions on his face. "
"I ondershtand," replied the skipper, putting his finger to his nose; "it shall be
done.
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