. And a custom had grown up of a general tea at four o’clock, under the auspices of a Miss Garvice, a tall and graceful girl of distinguished intellectual incompetence, in whom the hostess instinct seemed to be abnormally developed. She had no intention whatsoever of spending her life in a convent, but that was not his affair. “Not at all. ‘Beg pardon, miss, but I’m told as how—’ She broke off, her eyes widening, her jaw dropping open. “Perhaps for me,” she added, with a sudden wistful look out of the bare high window, “a night of beginnings. The customary gold band was missing; but a soft gold Chinese ring Spurlock had picked up in Singapore—the characters representing good luck and prosperity—was slipped over Ruth's third finger. ’ Chapter Six Creeping along the dark narrow passage, with lantern held well ahead to keep her step steady on the uneven stones—and to warn her of the advent of rats— Melusine kept her long petticoats fastidiously clear of the dirt with an efficient hand, a habit she had learned in the convent. They struck her as cold and indifferent. ‘You wish a reason for jealousy? Eh bien, you may have it. He admitted that it would bore him to dally here in Canton, with the pleasures of Hong-Kong so close. “I am afraid,” he said to Anna afterwards, “that it was a mistake to order the champagne sec. So, bloody but unbeaten, weak and spent but undaunted, he waited for the Wastrel to spring up. But it was almost choked up with fallen stacks of chimneys, broken beams of timber, and shattered tiles. .
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