Do you think that I am utterly selfish?”
She raised her eyebrows. "
"I'd good reasons for placing it there, Sir; but don't question me about them now,
or you'll drive me mad," returned Mrs. ’ Gerald infused
sympathy into his voice, and deliberately addressed himself to Madame. ‘I’m only a poor country wench, child. It would send business elsewhere; and the hotel business in Canton was never so
prosperous that one could afford to lose a single guest. The windows
were grated, the doors barred; each room had the name as well as the appearance
of a cell; and the very porter who stood at the gate, habited like a jailer, with his
huge bunch of keys at his girdle, his forbidding countenance and surly
demeanour seemed to be borrowed from Newgate. “I wish I didn’t swear. It’s my other side of the
moon. Wood set off at full speed
from the Mint, and, hurrying he scarce knew whither (for there was such a
continual buzzing in his ears and dancing in his eyes, as almost to take away the
power of reflection), he held on at a brisk pace till his strength completely failed
him. It was
plain that a man of his age could only be interested for
one reason alone, yet she felt compelled to at know him a
little before the main event. Her lips parted, but no words came.
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