His reputation was slightly tainted by his
marriage to her mother, an exotic blue-eyed raven-haired
beauty, a Gypsy doll with a clandestine heritage. Red velvet curtains
rustled under dim lights as the door shut with a heavy
snap. Between her
and the fair, far prospect of freedom and self-development manoeuvred Mr. "
He summoned another "boy" and rumbled some Cantonese. No
trouble will ever come to your sister through me. "He
first seduced him from the paths of honesty, and then betrayed him to a shameful
death, and he has sworn to do the same thing by my son. No one in the world is beyond the shaft of scandal—
we all catch it terribly sometimes. "Won't you take these?"
For a space he merely stared at her, perhaps wondering if she were real. ‘Difficult, I grant you. He was conscious of a peculiar pleasure in
sitting there and thinking of those few hours which already were becoming to
assume a definite importance in his mind—a place curiously apart from those
dry-as-dust images which had become the gods of his prosaic life. ToC
Jonathan, meanwhile, having ascertained the parentage of the child from Wood,
proceeded to question him in an under tone, as to the probable motives of the
attempt upon its life; and, though he failed in obtaining any information on this
point, he had little difficulty in eliciting such particulars of the mysterious
transaction as have already been recounted.
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