It was
not only that her father had said all sorts of inconsistent and unreasonable things,
but that by some incomprehensible infection she herself had replied in the same
vein. So, here he was, on the last lap of
middle age, in China, having missed all the thrills in life except one—the war
against Death. Besides these there was a warm gooseberry-tart, and
a cold pigeon pie—the latter capacious enough, even allowing for its due
complement of steak, to contain the whole produce of a dovecot; a couple of
lobsters and the best part of a salmon swimming in a sea of vinegar, and shaded
by a forest of fennel. "
"I was educated in America. The jailers robbed the prisoners: the prisoners
robbed one another. My heart would speak if it
could, for it is very full. "
"No more of this," rejoined Thames, "or we shall quarrel. He's as savage and suspicious as the devil himself. "Evidently he could not destroy these
children of his. I owed
his father a grudge: that I settled long ago. Within forty-eight hours the girl would be
on her way east and the boy see-sawing the South China Sea, for ever moving at
absolute angles. “What you have said is a ridiculous falsehood,” she declared scornfully. "
"Thames!"
"You seem to doubt my love," he continued,—"you seem to think that change of
circumstances may produce some change in my affections. Think, ma’am.
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