How would it serve Nicholas to keep the truth from his daughter? A tiny thread of disquiet troubled him. 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. " "To be sure! Nothing entertains me so much. He went to the door. I think I know where I am puzzling you now——” “Then for Heaven’s sake be merciful,” he exclaimed. Her father’s ideas of expostulation were a little harsh and forcible, and over the claret-colored table-cloth and under the gas chandelier, with his hat and umbrella between them like the mace in Parliament, he and his daughter contrived to have a violent quarrel. At least the sun would not be as bright, which was a welcome reprieve from the mercilessly bright early summer days which had invigorated every man, woman, and child in the suburbs but were wearing Lucy down into acute fatigue, along with her hunger. ’ He glanced about and saw his quarry holding court at one end of the vast mirrored chamber. She seemed smitten with a paroxysm of fear.
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