Surely she could ignore him. ”
So they went this time to the Rococo, in Germain Street, and up-stairs to a
landing upon which stood a bald-headed waiter with whiskers like a French
admiral and discretion beyond all limits in his manner. Her new husband was pleased to watch the astonished
look on her face as tray after tray appeared on the grand
table, each better than the next. ‘Troops?’
‘Go, man,’ urged the major in an undervoice. At times he was brilliant and masterful, talked round and over
every one, and would have been domineering if he had not been extraordinarily
kindly; at times he was almost monosyllabic, and defeated Miss Garvice’s most
skilful attempts to draw him out. He had conveyed it to her, not
verbally, but by means of a letter, which seemed to her a singularly ignoble
method of prohibition. To
buy the freedom of a poor little Chinese slave-girl! For what was the sing-song
girl but a slave, the double slave of custom and of men? Ruth wanted to know
keenly what had impelled the idea.
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