"No offence, I hope, my dear Mrs. Why don't you try to find out how the every-day Chinese
lives, how he treats his family, what his normal habits are, his hopes, his
ambitions? Why don't you come to China as I went to America—with an open
mind?"
"You're on," said O'Higgins, briskly. At the back of the house, on a
bank, rose an old-fashioned terrace-garden, full of apple-trees and other fruittrees in blossom, and lively with the delicious verdure of early spring. Gerald would certainly have demanded back his sword. He classified her as he seated himself. ’
‘I beg your pardon?’ said Miss Froxfield frostily. "My good friend, Owen Wood,—Heaven preserve
him!—is still living. And a
ballot-box—” Her face assumed an expression of intellectual conflict. “My dear,” she said, when she could get her breath, “you must come home at
once. You just married
her. Fritz
and Anna had been her wards for over two years!
Sebastian stood in the corner, laughing silently at the
fighting women. He knew the circle of mountains about Saas Fee fairly well: he had been there
twice before, and it was fine to get away from the straggling pedestrians into the
high, lonely places, and sit and munch sandwiches and talk together and do
things together that were just a little difficult and dangerous.
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