" "As an honest Chinaman?"—taking out the offensiveness of the query by smiling. To-morrow I am going to Paris. ” “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. This service rendered, without waiting for any farther order, she withdrew. The remainder of dinner was surreal and stilted. The haste to send her upon her way now had but one interpretation—the recognition of his own immediate danger, the fear that if this tender association continued, he would end in offering her a calamity quite as impossible as that which had happened—the love of a man who was in all probability older than her father! The hurt was no less intensive because it was so ridiculous. Run along now; but return in half an hour. From her stomacher, to which it was attached by a multitude of glittering steel chains, depended an immense turnip-shaped watch, in a pinchbeck case. “I know nothing whatever of his friends or his home. But supposing he is? Supposing he made but one misstep? Your island would be a haven of security. In Europe or in America people would have smiled; but in Singapore—the half-way port of the world—where a human kaleidoscope tumbles continuously east and west, no one had remarked her.
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