“You were there, were you?”
He laughed a little impatiently. The atmosphere was
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strained and deathly quiet at the dining room table. He seemed to know a great deal about life. ”
The stranger came over to them smiling. You said that it would bring trouble. Her desires were not for riches. Holding the lamp over her
rigid but beautiful features, Jonathan, with some anxiety, placed his hand upon
her breast to ascertain whether the heart still beat. With his arms bare, the neckband of his shirt
tucked in, he laboured. "My good friend, Owen Wood,—Heaven preserve
him!—is still living. I’m a soldier, you see. To
buy the freedom of a poor little Chinese slave-girl! For what was the sing-song
girl but a slave, the double slave of custom and of men? Ruth wanted to know
keenly what had impelled the idea. Their eyes met, and his
expressed perplexity and curiosity.
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