From this sorrowful state he was aroused by a loud derisive whistle, followed by a still louder laugh; and, looking up, he beheld the impudent countenance of Jack Sheppard immediately before him. ‘Something for you, Lucy?’ he asked, interrupting a heated argument that had obviously been in progress for some little time before their arrival. Before many minutes elapsed, he had picked a large hole in the plaster, which showered down in a cloud of dust; and breaking off several laths, caught hold of a beam, by which he held with one hand, until with the other he succeeded, not without some difficulty, in forcing out one of the tiles. There was no such a thing as perfection in a mixed world. ’ The core of hurt rose up, tearing at her insides. I went with him to what I supposed to be the British Embassy, and went through a ceremony which I understood to be the usual form of the marriage one used there. But she had loved the man. The hymnal lyrics had never stirred her; she had memorized and sung them parrotwise. He admitted that it would bore him to dally here in Canton, with the pleasures of Hong-Kong so close. He obeyed, letting the garment fall to the floor.
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