CHAPTER XXVII
His idea, cleverly planned, was to shatter her resistance, to confound her
suddenly by striking her mind with words which would rob her coherent
thought. They were at the corner of Pall
Mall now, and had come to a standstill. "Yale!" Spurlock's gaze shifted to the dead hills beyond the window;
when it returned to the Chinaman there was astonishment instead of interest: as
if Ah Cum had been a phantom a moment since and was now actually a human
being. For all her begging she had been given the choice to go
into the nunnery and “learn how to read scrolls with the
rest of God’s Spinsters” by her father, but had quickly
lost interest when presented with the idea of bearing
babies. It was dated from the House of Commons on the
previous day. He pictured himself
visiting the girl in this shabby little home of her aunt’s—she had told him that it
was shabby—and he recalled that delicious little smile with which she would
surely greet him, a smile which seemed to be a matter of the eyes as well as the
lips. But for him——”
Something in her sister’s tone startled Anna. "Where is he?" he cried. He never retires to rest
till daybreak—if at all. “I’m sorry I told you that, Michelle. Idleness is the key of
beggary, Jack. Anna was
singing as she used to sing. But Jack did not heed them. I am determined to fight my own little battle with the world
—there must be a place for me somewhere, and I mean to find it.
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