“I can’t imagine, Miss Pellissier,” Brendon said, leaning towards her, “whatever
made you think of coming to stay if only for a week at a Montague Street
boarding-house. So long as they're about, I'll always be rewriting them
and wasting my time. It runs about gayly, it
romps, it is bright and pretty, it has enormous quantities of soft hair and more
power of expressing affection than its brothers. ”
“You may be sure of the one,” she murmured. “A modern girl does understand these terms. A
girl—at my age—is grown-up. I
told him Valade had tried to borrow money off me and asked if he could vouch
for the fellow. He had assumed that her leaving home was the point at issue, that
everything turned on that, and that the sole alternative was obedience, and she
had fallen in with that assumption until rebellion seemed a sacred principle. "
"You're a philosopher, too. Lucy
followed. She saw it, and checked without thinking. "
Something in the child's voice, something in her manner, warned the spinster
that her well-meaning inquisitiveness had received a set-back and that it would
be dangerous to press it forward again. ” She said. From the portals of the hotel—scarcely fifty yards from the canal—one saw the
blank face of the ancient city of Canton.
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