’
‘So would you run away,’ she uttered impulsively. ‘You could have fetched me home. There were game watermen and game lightermen, heavy horsemen
and light horsemen, scuffle-hunters, and long-apron men, lumpers, journeymen
coopers, mud-larks, badgers, and ratcatchers—a race of dangerous vermin
recently, in a great measure, extirpated by the vigilance of the Thames Police,
but at this period flourishing in vast numbers. McClintock had brought from
Penang three mangosteen evergreens; and, wonders of wonders, they had thrived
—as trees. " Ruth turned back toward the
stairs. “Then I will do what I can,” Anna promised. "You mean, it doesn't
matter?"
"Poor Hoddy! When you were ill in Canton, out of your head, you babbled
words. Hurt beyond what he could imagine by the selfishness and
pride of her forbears, whose fateful disputes had robbed her of the life she
should have led, the plucky little devil had taken matters into her own hands. The
fire—if there was any in him—never made headway against this insistant
demand to know the significance of these manifold inward agitations. "
"What did I forget?"
"The breathless days and the faded, pitiless sky.
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