“Why did I ever take that loan? An idiot girl in an asylum would have known
better than that!
“Vulgarity of soul and innocence of mind—the worst of all conceivable
combinations. Yet, here she was, in
the ancient Chinese city, weaving in and out of the narrow streets some scarcely
wide enough for two men to walk abreast, streets that boiled and eddied with
yellow human beings, who worshipped strange gods, ate strange foods, and
diffused strange suffocating smells. "Then I presume you've not been arrested?"
"I have not," answered Wood firmly. She is curiously altered in many
ways. So, here he was, on the last lap of
middle age, in China, having missed all the thrills in life except one—the war
against Death. Sheppard, he turned to quit the
churchyard. In response to an almost imperative gesture from the
nurse, Anna laid her hand upon his. "
As he spoke, a smile crossed Sheppard's countenance.
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