“My sister and I,” she said slowly, “have seen very little of each other lately. Canton was something like a blind alley; unless you were native, you couldn't get anywhere except by returning to Hong-Kong and starting afresh. Ruth's eyes were wet, but she saw light everywhere: the room was filled with celestial aura. ” “Shall we go now?” “I think I would like to listen to music. " "Leave us together, my good woman," said Jack, putting a guinea into her hand. " "You'll take the consequences, then?" "Willingly. “Of course it is, Anna. After all, she was a consummate actress. He refused to believe that Anna was not ‘Alcide. “Like him who stood on Darien I view uncharted sea Ten thousand days, ten thousand nights Before my Queen and me. On seeing it, he'll deliver you a box, which it will unlock, and in which you'll find a matter of fifty guineas and a few trinkets. The settlements which he has spoken of, too, are most munificent. Wouldn't it be fun to see his name on a book-cover some day? He'll go strutting up and down without ever dreaming he owed the whole shot to us. It was a curious sight to see how this extraordinary woman, who, it has been said, was not less remarkable for the extreme delicacy of her features, and the faultless symmetry of her figure, than for her wonderful strength and agility, conducted herself in the present encounter; with what dexterity she parried every blow aimed against her by her adversary, whose head and face, already marked by various ruddy streams, showed how successfully her own hits had been made; —how she drew him hither and thither, now leading him on, now driving him suddenly back; harassing and exhausting him in every possible way, and making it apparent that she could at any moment put an end to the fight, and only delayed the finishing stroke to make his punishment the more severe.
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