‘Well?’ demanded Miss Froxfield, accepting a glass of lemonade proffered by a passing lackey. There could not, he decided, possibly be two girls so much alike. “I saw—they knocked off your fetters yesterday. ‘Is that a gesture of friendship?’ She stamped her foot. Spurling, formerly, it may be remembered, the hostess of the Dark House at Queenhithe,—whence wine, ale, and brandy of inferior quality were dispensed, in false measures, and at high prices, throughout the prison, which in noise and debauchery rivalled, if it did not surpass, the lowest tavern. " "For shame, Mr. ‘What in the world is that?’ demanded Miss Froxfield. He was a civil servant of some standing, and after a previous conversation upon aesthetics of a sententious, nebulous, and sympathetic character, he had sent her a small volume, which he described as the fruits of his leisure and which was as a matter of fact rather carefully finished verse. There are sing-song girls in Hong-Kong and Shanghai who are famous and wealthy. " "I will have none till I have forced the villain's name from you!" he cried, stamping the floor with rage. She had come across the wicked South Seas which were still infested with cannibals; she had seen drunkenness and called men beachcombers; who was this moment as innocent as a babe, and in the next uttered some bitter wisdom it had taken a thousand years of philosophy to evolve. For all that, Ah Cum was forced to admit that his charge did not look dissipated.
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