In fiction you make the Chinese secretive, criminal, and terrible—or comic. "Enough!" exclaimed Wild, triumphantly. To be confronted with the girl’s damned Frenchman of a husband was another matter altogether. She grasped at the right one, massaging where his grip had been and Gerald hoped he had not bruised her. His age was not far from fifty. "She's glorious!" He knew that he must hoodwink this keeneyed Scot, even as he must hoodwink everybody: publicly, the devoted husband; privately, the celibate. The grim mockery of it!—those South Sea loafers, taking advantage of Enschede's Christianity and imposing upon him, accepting his money and medicines and laughing behind his back! No doubt they made the name a byword and a subject for ribald jest in the waterfront bars. "If I get free, I'll have a bout with you at all weapons. Besides the table close by loaded with books, there was a central table with upright chairs around, covered in a multitude of papers, inks and quills, and assorted unrelated items such as playing cards. The gardens were tidy and geometric, each avenue with a different purpose: flowers for cutting, herbs, brightly colored vegetables. But, in spite of her attractions, we shall address ourselves to the younger, and more interesting couple. For all her begging she had been given the choice to go into the nunnery and “learn how to read scrolls with the rest of God’s Spinsters” by her father, but had quickly lost interest when presented with the idea of bearing babies. “Idiot!” She raged inwardly while she walked along with that air of self-contained serenity that is proper to a young lady of nearly two-and-twenty under the eye of the world. “You are going to treat me as though I wasn’t.
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