It was a gorgeous May evening, the air redolent with the soapy purple scents of hyacinth and lilac. ” “H’m!” said Ann Veronica, and shook her head. " "A novelist?" cried Ruth, thrilling. She refused coffee, though she knew that anyhow she was doomed to a sleepless night. "What!" she exclaimed, almost choked with passion,—"I advised you to burthen yourself with that idle and good-for-nothing pauper, who'm you ought rather to send to the workhouse than maintain at your own expense, did I! I advised you to take him as an apprentice; and, so far from getting the regular fee with him, to give him a salary? I advised you to feed him, and clothe him, and treat him like his betters; to put up with his insolence, and wink at his faults? I counselled all this, I suppose. On some insane score she fancied she had to state her case in verse. He was daring enough to have seized and carried him off before the whole congregation, but he preferred waiting. Only her face was clear, frail and delicate, almost flower-like, with the sad haunting eyes ever watching his. ‘As I said, a mistake. “Do tell me all about it. Some Chinaman might take it into his head to shout: "Death to the foreign devils!" And out of that wall yonder would boil battle and murder and sudden death. “And, you know, you’re altering us all.
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