I had been about as foolish and selfish as a girl could be. Most people, every one I know else, seem to have mated with foreigners and to talk uneasily in unfamiliar tongues, to be afraid of the knowledge the other one has, of the other one’s perpetual misjudgment and misunderstandings. The thought caused him an odd kind of pang—of pity, naturally. CHAPTER XXVI Spurlock went out on his toes, careful lest the bamboo curtain rattle behind him. Anna stared back at every one with undaunted composure. For Ruth was in love, tenderly and beautifully in love; but she did not know how to express it beyond the fetch and carry phase. She wished he could smoke and dull his nerves a little. Above was a spacious hall, connected with it by a flight of stone steps, at the further end of which stood an immense grated door, called in the slang of the place "The Jigger," through the bars of which the felons in the upper wards were allowed to converse with their friends, or if they wished to enter the room, or join the revellers below, they were at liberty to do so, on payment of a small fine. Brendon always comes home with me, and tonight both are away.
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