It was, in his opinion, the most astonishing letter he had ever read. “We have no airs and graces here, and my hat hangs from a peg in the passage. I could not keep away any longer. Do you remember when we went right away, Nigel, and forgot everything? We went down the river past Veraz, and the larks were singing all over those deep brown fields, and the river further on wound its way like a coil of silver across the rich meadowland, and along the hillside vineyards. Chapter XVI THE DISCOMFITURE OF SIR JOHN Sir John looked from one to the other of the two sisters. He made his headquarters at the Victoria on the Sha-mien, and generally met the Hong-Kong packet in the morning. Their idea of maidenly innocence was just a blank white—the sort of flat white that doesn’t shine. ’ ‘Then it is good that you do not ask me,’ Melusine snapped, and flouncing away from him, went to sit in the large chair behind the desk at the far end of the room. Suppose—suppose a girl did want to start in life, start in life for herself—” She looked him frankly in the eyes. “This is all very well,” she said, “but two out of the three are rank deserters— and if the papers tell the truth the third is as bad. Ennison spoke at last. She is in the hall now. The Cantonese, excepting in the shops where he expects profit, always resents the intrusion of the fan-quei—foreign devil. Past her shot the little old lady in the bonnet, running incredibly fast, but otherwise still alertly respectable, and she was making a strange threatening sound as she ran, such as one would use in driving ducks out of a garden—“B-rr-r-r-r—!” and pawing with black-gloved hands.
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