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He started to pick up a sheet of manuscript, but she pushed him from the table
toward the doorway; and he staggered out of the bungalow, suddenly stretched
his arms, and broke into a trot. “Look round the table,” she said. All the world over a wedding
procession arouses laughter and derision in the bystanders. . A cold shiver came over her. “When you married me——”
Her little hand flashed out across the table. She had been in the
drawing-room for a few minutes before the gong had sounded, and had chattered
gaily to every one. But, alas!
she was beautiful—and beauty is a crime not to be forgiven by a jealous woman. She loved him. For what could be more ironical
than for Howard Spurlock to see himself grow famous under the name of Taber?
The ambrosia of which he had so happily dreamt!—and this gall and
wormwood! He stood up and rapped his pipe on the rail. “Are you sorry you waited, aunt?” she said. What right had a young woman to possess
the scarring and intimate knowledge of that dreg of human society, the
beachcomber?
CHAPTER II
Ah Cum lived at No. She is very
charming, and we all admire her immensely.
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