. "The glass never sinks in
that way, d'ye see, without a hurricane follerin', I've knowed it often do so in the
West Injees. You're luck. ‘I did not send you a card because in the normal way of things you rarely
attend such affairs. ‘Lord, no! I’ve a better regard for my skin, I thank
you. Someone had thoughtfully wrapped a bit of tissue
paper round the electric bulb. My
agent is here, and he has brought his contract for me to sign. She was silent, the ghost of a fading smile passed from her lips. He had
been dreaming of Ruth—an old recurrency of that dream he had had in Canton,
of Ruth leading him to the top of the mountain. If the boy had done anything wrong back there in
the States, his would be the brand of conscience to pay him out in full. At Morningside Park I feel as
though all my growing up was presently to stop, as though I was being shut in
from the light of life, and, as they say in botany, etiolated. ‘I’m only a poor country wench, child.
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