”
Her mind diverged to other aspects, and another type of womanhood. Getting back the ice was rather a serious affair. She struggled fiercely not to give way. Lady Angela shrugged her shoulders. The Cantonese, excepting in the shops where he
expects profit, always resents the intrusion of the fan-quei—foreign devil. Wrenching his
hands from her shoulders, she thrust them away and leapt up from the chair. ‘Alcide’ or no ‘Alcide,’ there is
not a music hall manager in London or Paris who would not give you an
engagement on your own merits. “His stipend forbade it,” she
said, and seemed to fall into a train of thought. So far she had not heard the sound of his voice. This isn’t the place. “Why should women be dependent on men?” she asked; and the question was
at once converted into a system of variations upon the theme of “Why are things
as they are?”—“Why are human beings viviparous?”—“Why are people hungry
thrice a day?”—“Why does one faint at danger?”
She stood for a time looking at the dry limbs and still human face of that
desiccated unwrapped mummy from the very beginnings of social life. The person, shortly afterwards ushered into the room, seemed by the imperfect
light,—for the evening was advancing, and the chamber darkened by heavy
drapery,—to be a middle-sized middle-aged man, of rather vulgar appearance,
but with a very shrewd aspect.
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