"I am a Yale man," said Ah Cum. “She is marvellously clever,” he said. He
never cries nor frets, as children generally do, but lies at my bosom, or on my
knee, as quiet and as gentle as you see him now. ”
“Then I didn’t waste my time in prison altogether?”
“It wasn’t the prison impressed me. Tell me all
that happened, one sister-woman to another. As
she hoisted her skirts near her waist, she thought ruefully
of the last time she had worn such an elaborate gown,
sometime near 1910 when petticoats were still considered
hip everyday garb. "
After all those former bitter failures, this cup was sweet, even if there was the
flavour of irony. I
needn't tell you to tread carefully. You must know, Sir, when he was a lad, the day after he
broke into his master's house in Wych Street, he picked a gentleman's pocket in
our church, during sarvice time,—that he did, the heathen. This isn't your island, child; it's the great world.
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