Part 9
The realization that she was in love flooded Ann Veronica’s mind, and altered
the quality of all its topics. "
"Never, while I've breath in my body, Captain," rejoined Blueskin, who had
joined them. Then came the cable
that you were in Canton, ill, but not dangerously so. Personally, however, I
doubt if—’
‘Charvill?’ interrupted Gerald without ceremony, all his senses at once on the
alert. And
now, only twenty-four hours behind him … that is, if he wasn't paddling by on
the return route to Hong-Kong or had dropped down to Macao. As a sex you’re a little under-trained—in affairs. Obey my
orders, and you've nothing to fear. She took refuge in beating her pillow and inventing insulting epithets for
herself. She took up one of her father’s
novels and put it down again, fretted up to her own room for some work, sat on
her bed and meditated upon the room that she was now really abandoning
forever, and returned at length with a stocking to darn. “I wonder which of us enjoys that most,” said Capes—“does he, or do we?”
“He seems to get a zest—”
“He does it and forgets it. A time may come when this little chap will need my aid, and,
depend upon it, he shall never want a friend in Owen Wood. ”
“Out with it, then,” he cried, almost roughly.
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