"You'll not be offended, I hope," returned Wood, drily, "if I say that your voice, your manner, and, above all, your very extraordinary way of laughing, put me strangely in mind of one of the 'droll dogs,' (as you term them,) who helped to perpetrate the outrage I've just described. “My dear Miss Stanley, when I talked to you the other afternoon of work and politics and such-like things, my mind was all the time resenting it beyond measure. “Anna! What tragedy has happened, little sister? No lights, no supper, no coffee —and, above all, no Mr. "To him I owe everything," continued the widow, "life itself—nay, more than life,—for without his assistance I should have perished, body and soul. So, while she watched, distressed and bewildered by her tumbling thoughts, the packet, Canton bound, ruffled the placid waters of the Pearl River. Men have seen to that. ’ ‘What?’ gasped Alderley in shock. That would be an unkind twist of fate. ’ ‘Well, sir? Who is “she”? Not my granddaughter, I take it. Can you imagine how dreadful it must be for them? Most of them arrive here almost penniless.
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