It is for that reason that
this novel begins with her there, and neither earlier nor later, for it is the history
of this crisis and its consequences that this novel has to tell. The doctor
drew out the contents hopefully. " With this, he appeared to pluck
up his courage, and stepped forward more boldly. Success to our enterprise!"
"Success to our enterprise!" echoed the others, significantly. Lucy had just began to invoke a solace where
John was concerned, doing her best to shelve him as not
so special after all. Never again to be alone! To fit herself into this
man's life as a hand into a glove; to use all her skill to force him into the position
of depending upon her utterly; to be the spark to the divine fire! He should have
his book, even if it had to be written with her heart's blood. A white man, wandering about the streets of Canton at
night, was a challenge to such a catastrophe. “Why come after me after all these years, Sebastianus?
Haven’t you found any sycophants to convert, any nubile
young nymphets to bring into the cannibal flock?”
“Why should I do that if there is still the chance of
you?”
“What if there could be no chance of me? How do
you know you can have me?”
“I see your game. That was the
wonder of these stories; one lived in them. “I am afraid that you are making a mistake,” she said. ”
“We will go to a very quiet place,” he assured her, “a place where I have often
taken my own sisters.
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