Even after this woman
had gone, it seemed to Ruth that the room was kindlier than it had ever been. Sheppard, "are you come to renew your terrible
proposals?"
"I'm come to execute my threats," replied Wild. Upstairs, in the little dressing-room, the panel was opened by means of
tugging a small candlesconce in the wall. ‘Damnation!’
Confused, he released her, and in an instant she had darted away and was
running down the garden. I should
never have noticed the miniature at all, if it hadn't been for him. She was informed by Ah Cum that the Chinaman
was one of the literati and that he was expounding the deathless philosophy of
Confucius, which, summed up, signified that the end of all philosophy is
Nothing. Were I a painter of subject pictures, I would exhaust all my skill in proportion
and perspective and atmosphere upon the august seat of empire, I would present
it gray and dignified and immense and respectable beyond any mere verbal
description, and then, in vivid black and very small, I would put in those
valiantly impertinent vans, squatting at the base of its altitudes and pouring out a
swift, straggling rush of ominous little black objects, minute figures of
determined women at war with the universe. But, not daring to confess his want of comprehension,
he made a profound reverence, and retired. I haven’t, anyhow. ‘She may well try to go back. It was the last thing she felt like drinking. But shurely I'd know that vice," he added, turning his lantern towards the
janizary. "Ay. “As things are at present,” she said,
“it is true. What does it matter? It is here,
and it is here to stay.
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