His arm closed in around her middle and she was caught. The girl wondered what effect the information would have upon Ah Cum if she told him that until a month ago she had never seen a city, she had never seen a telephone, a railway train, an automobile, a lift, a paved street. “Difficulties indeed. For a time she brooded on the ideals and suggestions of the Socialists, on the vague intimations of an Endowment of Motherhood, of a complete relaxation of that intense individual dependence for women which is woven into the existing social order. . After the sights he would have to twiddle his thumbs until the joints cracked. She found herself again in the presence of some element in life about which she had been trained not to think, about which she was perhaps instinctively indisposed to think; something which jarred, in spite of all her mental resistance, with all her preconceptions of a clean and courageous girl walking out from Morningside Park as one walks out of a cell into a free and spacious world. ‘That’s why I never told Joan Ibstock that you were still with me when I wrote. And when I have steeped him to the lips in vice and depravity; when I have led him to the commission of every crime; when there is neither retreat nor advance for him; when he has plundered his benefactor, and broken the heart of his mother—then—but not till then, I will consign him to the fate to which I consigned his father. It's a thousand pities to hang so pretty a fellow. Only your horror of a grandfather insisted on coming with me, so I had to wait for him to be ready and travel at his pace. I shan't let you off a farthing. The by now familiar dramatic sigh came. What he needed most in this hour was a bottle of American rye-whisky and a friendly American bar-keep to talk to.
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