By the time he had reached the summit of this hill, he had lost all trace of them;
and the ardour of the chase having in some measure subsided, he began to
reproach himself for his folly, in having wandered—as he conceived—so far out
of his course. “You are a funny, a very funny young lady,” he said, “but we waste time here. “Don’t you know, child, that this is
torture for me? What in God’s name more can you have to tell me?”
Her face had become almost like a marble image. She was informed by Ah Cum that the Chinaman
was one of the literati and that he was expounding the deathless philosophy of
Confucius, which, summed up, signified that the end of all philosophy is
Nothing. When he was done she kissed his cheek tenderly. Up to this
moment, hopes had been entertained of a respite, strong representations in his
favour having been made in the highest quarter; but now that his fate seemed
sealed, the curiosity of the sight-seeing public to behold him was redoubled. In this
way (he informed Spurlock) he kept posted on what was going on in the strictly
commercial world. ”
It was as if she faced a darkness in which was something very beautiful and
wonderful as yet unimagined. Ho-hum!
CHAPTER IX
The Hong-Kong packet lay alongside the warehouse frontage. ” She leaned against the back
wall of the place, sinking slowly. Look out, it’s coming. When she was quite sure that he was gone she took her
sister’s note from the mantelpiece and slowly broke the seal. In a few
minutes, an appalling change was perceptible. What were you doing at Remenham House? I can’t
puzzle that bit out. She refused to eat.
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