” The young man accepted the letter and the message, and seemed about to close the door when a lady issued from one of the front rooms and intervened. Her head felt absurdly like one of those noddling manikins in the Hong-Kong curio-shops. ” He signed his name and reflected. She refused coffee, though she knew that anyhow she was doomed to a sleepless night. Rows of roasted duck, brilliantly varnished; luscious vegetables, which she had been warned against; baskets of melon seed and water-chestnuts; men working in teak and blackwood; fan makers and jade cutters; eggs preserved in what appeared to her as petrified muck; bird's nests and shark fins. 5. ” “I am highly flattered,” she remarked, with subtle irony. You’re mine. That’s why I wanted your weapons. Imagine her, putting herself to all this delay and inconvenience for a young wastrel she did not know and who, the moment he got on his feet, would doubtless pass out of her life without so much as Thank you! And it was ten to one that she would not comprehend the ingratitude.
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