Give me that picture, or I'll
make you!"
"Hear me," said Thames, calmly; "you well know you're no match for me. “I am staying
at the Savoy. He poured a pinch of tobacco into his palm and
sniffed. "Aye—to pretend to her that you don't care. . But always this new phase in life which civilization
called convention threw up barrier after barrier. Her eyes were soft and grave, and there was the faintest
of smiles upon her resolute lips. ‘You
ought to be glad someone cares enough about your wretched little neck to try
and save it. She realized more and more the
quality of the brink upon which she stood—the dreadful readiness with which in
certain moods she might plunge, the unmitigated wrongness and recklessness of
such a self-abandonment. The iron slipped from his
face, leaving it blank with astonishment. ”
“I don’t believe it,” he answered hoarsely. The roof was partially
untiled; the chimneys were tottering; the side-walls bulged, and were supported
by a piece of timber propped against the opposite house; the glass in most of the
windows was broken, and its place supplied with paper; while, in some cases,
the very frames of the windows had been destroyed, and the apertures were left
free to the airs of heaven. Without a single ornament about her neck, or hair, wearing the plainest
of black gowns, out of which her shoulders shone gleaming white, she was
easily the most noticeable and the most distinguished-looking woman in the
room. The vast ironic humour of it: he was starting on his honeymoon!
CHAPTER XIX
Meanwhile the doctor, upon returning to his office, found Ah Cum in the waiting
room.
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