“Ruin me? For what? Posterity? How could you ruin
me, Lucy? What on earth are you talking about?”
He got up and began to pace the room. The girl was pretty, and apparently a
lady. “It’s a period of crude views and crude
work,” said Mr. Securing the chain in the best way he could, Jack then hurried down two pair of
stairs, and had nearly reached the lobby, when a door suddenly opened, and two
persons appeared, one of whom held a light. "Judging from what you tell me, I've no doubt he's the illegitimate offspring
of some handsome, but lowborn profligate; in which case, he'll neither have
name, nor wealth for his inheritance. "
"Ah. So I undertook to
protect her by keeping love out of her life, by crushing it whenever it appeared,
obliterating it. She contrived to break down the barriers of shyness at last in one direction,
and talked one night of love and the facts of love with Miss Miniver. The light touch of Ah Cum's hand upon her arm broke the thread of retrospective
thought; and her gray eyes began to register again the things she saw. One morning, as he took his stand on the Hong-Kong packet dock to ambush the
possible tourist, he witnessed the arrival of a tubby schooner, dirty gray and
blotched as though she had run through fire. “He must never know,” she would whisper to herself,
“he must never know.
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