How does one get work?
She walked along the Strand and across Trafalgar Square, and by the
Haymarket to Piccadilly, and so through dignified squares and palatial alleys to
Oxford Street; and her mind was divided between a speculative treatment of
employment on the one hand, and breezes—zephyr breezes—of the keenest
appreciation for London, on the other. The
agonized mother could scarcely repress a scream at the spectacle that met her
gaze. ’
For the first time since she had heard the news, Mrs Sindlesham’s features
relaxed and a tiny smile appeared. She turned to Lucilla, a
plea in her face. The sunshine broke across each shoulder, one lance
striking the yellow face of a Chinaman, queueless and dressed in European
clothes, the other lance falling squarely upon the face of the man he had
journeyed thirteen thousand miles to find. He had
been dreaming of Ruth—an old recurrency of that dream he had had in Canton,
of Ruth leading him to the top of the mountain. “I do
not wish to make impertinent inquiries into your private life. The air might be cool, but half an hour without
head-gear was an invitation to sunstroke. I don’t quite know why. “You see the pointer?” he asked. You and I. “It is you alone, Nigel, who have saved me
from being an old maid.
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