“Did you ever see women so weary-looking
and so dowdy? They do not talk. She seized the
key, and he grasped her hand and squeezed it roughly and painfully between the
handle and the ward as she tried to turn it. And his scarlet coat had nothing to do
with it, as Hilary was fond of recounting, for he had been in civilian clothes
when they met, as he was tonight. "Why shouldn't a Chinaman be honest? Ah, yes; I know. She had a vision of policemen,
reproving magistrates, a crowded court, public disgrace. Wood, who looks after
her comforts, and visits her constantly. During this dreadful pause the wretched man felt for his sword. “I think,” he said, “that I would fetch any one whom he has asked to see. ’
‘Then who is this Englishman?’ demanded Gerald on a sceptical note. One trouble, however, shot its slanting bolts athwart the shining warmth of
that opening day and marred its perfection, and that was the thought of her
father. "
An awful silence prevailed throughout the court. ”
He looked at her anxiously, and she met his glance with a dazzling smile of
gratitude.
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