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"Go on. The intensity of the eyes and the defiant tone bewildered the doctor, who found his well-constructed jeremiad without a platform. How she had fought her eagerness in the beginning, lest it reveal her ignorance of the marvels of mankind! The terror and ecstasy of that night in Singapore— the first city she had ever seen! There was still the impression that something akin to a miracle had piloted her successfully from one ordeal to another. Battle, murder, and sudden death—and an old chap like McClintock tuning his piano in the midst of it. Somebody may be on the watch—perhaps, that old ginger-hackled Jew. He rambled in an unfortunate monotone, the result of his innate fear of public speaking. Her fingers passed over a cunningly wrought surface of wood, with just the correct amount of protrusion, the precise colours of dyed leather, and cleverly gilded surfaces and neatly painted lettering. It resembled Mardi Gras, and she thought disdainfully of New Orleans. Ruth could not very well object, since an air of distinction would go with Taber. But it would serve. The inn was a military haunt. In a tall glass the rind of a Syrian orange was arranged in spiral form. "Come to my arms, Thames! Oh! dear! Oh! dear!" To repeat the questions and congratulations which now ensued, or describe the extravagant joy of the carpenter, who, after he had hugged his adopted son to his breast with such warmth as almost to squeeze the breath from his body, capered around the room, threw his wig into the empty fire-grate, and committed various other fantastic actions, in order to get rid of his superfluous satisfaction—to describe the scarcely less extravagant raptures of his spouse, or the more subdued, but not less heartfelt delight of Winifred, would be a needless task, as it must occur to every one's imagination. Tell him the truth, Annabel. He envied her a little.

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