” She paused for a moment. She imagined descending the stairs, hearing Mike’s uproarious laughter as she peeked around a vacant corner with a lump in her throat. She’s hated me for no apparent reason ever since Fourth Grade. The Cantonese, excepting in the shops where he expects profit, always resents the intrusion of the fan-quei—foreign devil. In a little while—to-morrow—all these tender, beautiful emotions will pass away, and I'll become what I was yesterday, a cynical, miserly old spinster. To buy the freedom of a poor little Chinese slave-girl! For what was the sing-song girl but a slave, the double slave of custom and of men? Ruth wanted to know keenly what had impelled the idea. “The very question shows your ignorance,” he declared. “May you have as much good fortune as you deserve, but not enough to make you forget us. “I want two words—with Miss Pellissier alone,” Hill pleaded. But—it’s one of the things I’ve just been thinking over. Ruth's mind was fertile soil; for a long time to come it would be something of a hothouse: green things would spring up and blossom overnight.
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