“You see, it comes after all,” she continued, “from certain original convictions
which have become my religion. Then he sensed the trap. ”
“No doubt. ‘I do not need for you to tell me
this. We had better have it over. He admitted that it would bore him to dally here in Canton, with
the pleasures of Hong-Kong so close. She came in while he was still in the throes, conviction battling with commonsense, his own apprehension. It had seemed to her that life might be very
good indeed with his kindliness and sacrifice about her. The Enschede Bible—the one out of which she read—had been strangely
mutilated. At the expiration of an hour, by dint of
unremitting exertion, he had made so large a breach in the chimney, that he
could stand upright in it. He shut his eyes and groped for the wall to steady himself,
wondering if this bit of mummery would get over. Springing upon the box, he told the coachman to
make the best of his way to Saint Giles's. ’
She had given nothing away. The windows of these rooms were obscured
with draperies, their floors a carpet patchwork; the china ornaments on their
mantels were of a class apart.
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