CHAPTER XXVI Spurlock went out on his toes, careful lest the bamboo curtain rattle behind him. He left the room, presumably to sleep elsewhere, but the only other room with a fire was the servant’s quarters. ‘You were right, miss. “She thinks that Missy is trying to turn me into a punk or a Goth. Her bonnet dropped off and was trampled into the gutter. Love … to take her in his arms and to comfort her: and then to add to her cup of bitterness the knowledge that her husband was a thief! For himself he did not care; God could continue to grind and pulverize him; but to add another grain to the evil he had already wrought upon Ruth was unthinkable. You’ve got me. The significance of the kiss was still obscure to her, though she had frequently encountered the word and act in the Old and New Testaments and latterly in novels. The Cantonese, excepting in the shops where he expects profit, always resents the intrusion of the fan-quei—foreign devil. Her dress, it has just been said, was neatness and simplicity itself.
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