“I mean to,” she replied. She winked at him as he shut the door. Soho! boys. Like appendicitis. His vision was becoming accustomed to the faint light now and her features were clearer. I do not wish to seek them out, en effet. Too intent on her search, and convinced besides that she was quite alone, she had been an easy prey. Inexplicably there flashed into vision the Chinese wedding procession in the narrow, twisted streets of the city, that first day: the gorgeous palanquin, the tomtoms, the weird music, the ribald, jeering mob that trailed along behind. She kissed him on the bridge of his nose. “How dared you do yourself this injustice?” “I did it for her sake,” she answered. She had taken care he should have this momentous talk with her on a garden-seat commanded by the windows of the house. If only sometimes he would grow angry at her, impatient! But his tender courtesy was unfailing; and under this would be the abiding bitterness of having mistaken gratitude for love. As the time when his identity had to be proved approached, this rigour was, in a trifling degree, relaxed, and a few persons were occasionally admitted to the ward, but only in the presence of Austin. He knew that at this moment Ruth lay upon her bed in torment, for she was by nature tender; and the reaction of her scathing words, no matter how justifiable, would be putting scars on her soul.
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