“I may be leaving where I am in a few days, so very likely you
will be no better off. Old London Bridge (the grandsire of the present erection) was supported on
nineteen arches, each of which
Would a Rialto make for depth and height!
The arches stood upon enormous piers; the piers on starlings, or jetties, built far
out into the river to break the force of the tide. A phase of mental activity that men called courage: to summon at will this
energy which barred the ingress of the long cold fingers of fear, which cleared
the throat of stuffiness and kept the glance level and ever forward. After the first onset several of the women who had
apartments to let said she would not do for them, and in effect dismissed her. Sorry. How plainly he could see the patch of garden in the
summer sunshine and the white hollyhocks nodding above the picket fence!
*****
Ruth sat waiting for the half hour, subconsciously. If Miss Charvill should take it into her head to dash off
on some foolish errand, go with her by all means. As
he understood it, folks saw in two or three days all there was to see of Canton. Happy
Thanksgiving. McClintock could
not browbeat him, storm as he might. Her tone was
icy. ’
‘About me?’ The lady’s lashes fluttered and her fan came up. She was saying good-bye to childhood and home, and her
making; she was going out into the great, multitudinous world; this time there
would be no returning.
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