She dreaded living off the land again, like an animal,
as she had done for dozens of years at a stretch. "He who stands on the verge of the
grave, as I do, should never be unprepared. “Take my advice,” he said hoarsely. He misstated her
age and address; but you can’t get home on him for a thing like that. Canton was something like a blind alley; unless
you were native, you couldn't get anywhere except by returning to Hong-Kong
and starting afresh. Mr. "
The thief-taker's residence was a large dismal-looking, habitation, separated
from the street by a flagged court-yard, and defended from general approach by
an iron railing. He was and always would be dramatizing his
emotions; perpetually he would be confounding his actual with his imaginary
self. Opposite to her was a sallow-visaged
young man, whose small tie seemed like a smudge of obtusively shiny black
across the front of a high close-drawn collar. There was a huge desk of heavily carved ebony at one end, and at the centre, a
couple of straight-backed chairs stood before a great fireplace at the outer wall,
flanked by two bookshelves with casement windows above.
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