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‘Gérard!’
‘Yes, it’s I,’ he said, and grinned. Yet, here she was, in
the ancient Chinese city, weaving in and out of the narrow streets some scarcely
wide enough for two men to walk abreast, streets that boiled and eddied with
yellow human beings, who worshipped strange gods, ate strange foods, and
diffused strange suffocating smells. ’
‘Don’t you believe it. ‘I understand you have not been in England very long,’ he said in English,
noting that Madame raised her fan and lowered her gaze demurely. ‘What would you? The nuns they would not
believe me, and so it was not possible for me to stay. “Listen to me. I figured it
would hurt your feelings if you knew I still talked to him,
so I kept my mouth shut. Regardless of the risk he incurred from some heavy stone dropping on his head
or feet,—regardless also of the noise made by the falling rubbish, and of the
imminent danger which he consequently ran of being interrupted by some of the
jailers, should the sound reach their ears, he continued to pull down large masses
of the wall, which he flung upon the floor of the cell.
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