"
"Perhaps not," replied Jack, carelessly. He asked her
whether she understood what she was saying, and went on to say still more
precisely that she should never touch a penny of his money until she came home
again—not one penny. ”
She was frightened—his anger always did frighten her—and in her resolve to
conceal her fright she carried a queen-like dignity to what she felt even at the
time was a preposterous pitch. With the extra
seventy-five pounds she had put after birthing her final
son, Steven, her knees weren’t in good shape to be
running up and down stairs all day. . “Did you—did you really think that they would take you for a Frenchman?” she
exclaimed. If they are not obvious errors, they are left as in the original. ”
“Quite true,” she answered briskly, “and thanks to you I have succeeded. ‘None of them means anything to you at all?
How odd. “I do
not wish to make impertinent inquiries into your private life. Be seated, and calm yourself. But the
lady was not so easily won; and though she did not absolutely reject him, gave
him very slight hopes. ”
“No. ”
The girl shook her head. 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.
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