“My sister,” she murmured, “is so independent. He would
read the jokes and illustrate them; and after a time I could see the point of a joke
without having it explained to me. She tried not to notice how much attention Martin
Chen had been paying her, but he had been bold enough
to speak to her the other day. Lucy could see the resemblance of
Martin to both of his parents as plain as day. Suddenly Ah Cum laughed aloud. Part 3
At last the evening was over, and Capes and his wife had gone down to see
Mr. “I can’t endure it,” she said. The moment
she entered the room and he rose, she felt that she was immediately consigned to
the circle of strangers; and it emptied her heart of its joy and filled it with
diffidence. But in the appendix of
the dictionary she had discovered magic names—Hugo, Dumas, Thackeray,
Hawthorne, Lytton. ’
‘What, a common soldier?’
‘He was not a common soldier. Businesswomen
in pointy-toed shoes swooned coyly in his direction,
tipping their noses over their glossy magazines to admire
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him.
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