‘Laisse-moi,’ she threw at him, her brief attack of sobs already ended, although the trace of tears on her cheeks bore witness to its sincerity. . A tinge of admiration rose in his breast. But at this, he halted, turning his frowning gaze back on her. A wild passion of shame and self-disgust swept over her. " "I am here in Canton," she replied, simply. “Let your friends act for you. But what else he saw fit to teach her I do not care to stipulate. Above was a spacious hall, connected with it by a flight of stone steps, at the further end of which stood an immense grated door, called in the slang of the place "The Jigger," through the bars of which the felons in the upper wards were allowed to converse with their friends, or if they wished to enter the room, or join the revellers below, they were at liberty to do so, on payment of a small fine. Hanging on the wall was a temple censer, bronze, moulded in the shape of a lotus blossom with stem and leaves—deadly as a club. Free! All the fine ecstasy, without the numbing terror. "I cannot—will not suffer you to remain here. Already he was dramatizing Ruth, involving her, now in some pearl thieving adventure, now in some impossible tale of a white goddess. Lucy tried not to make her cringe noticeable. To wait for hours and hours for the night! The sea empty for days! You forgot the monotony, the endless monotony, that bends you and breaks you and crushes you—you forgot that!" Her voice had steadily risen until it was charged with passionate anger.
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