“And yet you still live, Butterfly. “No power on earth will
persuade me we’re not two rather disreputable persons. “I had no idea that it
was so abominably late. Her complexion was wan and faded,
except where it was tinged by a slight hectic flush, that made the want of colour
more palpable; her eyes were large and black, but heavy and lustreless; her
cheeks sunken; her frame emaciated; her dark hair thickly scattered with gray. She formed a habit which embarrassed Spurlock greatly, but at first he dared not
complain. She was not very clear about the position and duties of a chorus-girl, but it
certainly had the air of being a last desperate resort. "
"I'll give you something better worth keeping," she answered, detaching the
ornament from her neck, and presenting it to him; "this contains a lock of my
hair, and may remind you sometimes of your little sister. S. D'ye hear how the wanes creaks on old Winchester
House? We shall have a touch on it ourselves presently. For her mother to betray her seemed
inevitable, but the betrayal seemed worse than her fate. “You don’t know him, Anna,” she said with a little shudder, “or you would not
talk like that. To surrender himself to the law, to face trial and imprisonment, was out of the
question. It added to the
picturesqueness of the Sha-mien night to observe these gaily coloured lanterns
dancing hither and yon like June fireflies in a meadow. "
"May be," returned the man gravely.
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