And now, my
angel, that I am acquainted with your sentiments on this subject, I shall readily
fulfil a promise which I made to your lamented parent, whose loss I shall ever
deplore. "
"May be," returned the man gravely. His mother used to live i' this village, just down yonder; but
when her son took to bad ways, she went distracted,—and now she's i' Bedlam,
I've heerd. One morning, as he took his stand on the Hong-Kong packet dock to ambush the
possible tourist, he witnessed the arrival of a tubby schooner, dirty gray and
blotched as though she had run through fire. So he made merry at the
dinner table, told comic stories, and was astonished at the readiness with which
she grasped the comic side of life. "There's nothing in his
clothes. "
So saying, he threw himself into a chair. ”
“You could never be that,” he answered, “but you are at least more serious than
usual. Inexplicably there flashed into vision the Chinese wedding procession in the
narrow, twisted streets of the city, that first day: the gorgeous palanquin, the tomtoms, the weird music, the ribald, jeering mob that trailed along behind. The misty caravans of which she had dreamed were become actualities. "Why, of hanging the fellow who acts as his jackal; one Blake, or Blueskin, I
think he's called.
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