“So you found Rhea, I see. Now, for the cage,
my pretty canary-bird. She was not afraid exactly, but there was that about her
loneliness to-night she distrusted. The poor wretch, driven by
desperation to the commission of a crime which her soul abhors, is no more
beyond the hope of reformation than she is without the pale of mercy. See? Nothing really. Ye gods! what a
wilderness it is! Every one trying to get the better of every one, every one
regardless of every one—it’s one of those days when every one bumps against
you—every one pouring coal smoke into the air and making confusion worse
confounded, motor omnibuses clattering and smelling, a horse down in the
Tottenham Court Road, an old woman at the corner coughing dreadfully—all the
painful sights of a great city, and here you come into it to take your chances. “I was born there. I love everything to-day, and all of you, but I love
this, this—this innocence upon us most of all. ’
‘Damn you, I should have beaten you,’ Gerald swore, holding fast to his
corner of the little square of linen. "
"I don't care if he is," rejoined Thames, boldly. And were you to load me with thrice the weight of iron you
have ordered you should not prevent my escaping a third time. The intoxicating sense
of novelty had given place to a more business-like mood. “I might have
muddled for a time.
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