”
She had not, she reflected, remembered how prominent his eyes were. Along the inner
side was a wonderfully arranged series of displayed specimens that Russell
himself had prepared. Fancying they were alone, Sir Rowland threw aside his cloak, and produced a
heavy bag of money, which he flung upon the table; and, when Wild had feasted
his greedy eyes sufficiently upon its golden contents, he handed him a pocketbook filled with notes. From this perturbed state he was roused by thoughts
of his mother, and fancying he heard her gentle voice urging him on to fresh
exertion, he started up. She had fallen asleep on the wooden bed,
uncaring of lice or bedbugs. “Come,” she said. Perhaps he had had money in the coat, back in Hong-Kong, and had
been robbed without knowing it.
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