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Lady Bicknacre, resplendent in purple satin, and basking in her triumphantly
full rooms—for it was obvious that her patronage of the refugees had set a
quickly to be followed fashion—was all sorrow and sympathy when Gerald
spoke of them. So far she had the
utmost difficulty in getting on to that vitally important matter. ‘Do not be imbecile. ‘Obstinate fool!’
She saw Gosse raise a hand, and dug into her nun’s habit for the knife she had
not thought to need. She felt herself getting into a corner. Les Misérables, A Tale of Two Cities, Henry Esmond, The Last Days of
Pompeii, The Marble Faun … Love stories!
Until her arrival in Singapore, she had never read a novel. Prison was bleak without spaciousness, and pervaded by a
faint, oppressive smell; and she had to wait two hours in the sullenly defiant
company of two unclean women thieves before a cell could be assigned to her. And, if Rachel had not carried a candle, the room would have been
plunged in total darkness. And when Mr. Of animal life, there was nothing left but monkeys and wild pig, the latter having
been domesticated.
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