”
A dull flush burned upon his cheeks. Yet her aunt, with a ringed hand flitting to
her lips and a puzzled, worried look in her eyes, deaf to all this riot of warmth
and flitting desire, was playing Patience—playing Patience, as if Dionysius and
her curate had died together. For the fresh and feverish hue of lip which
years ago characterised this feature, was now substituted a pure and wholesome
bloom, evincing a total change of habits; and, though the coarse character of the
mouth remained, in some degree, unaltered, it was so modified in expression,
that it could no longer be accounted a blemish. Doctor Ralph came
in to tea and put his arm round Alice and kissed her, and Alice called him
“Squiggles,” and stood in the shelter of his arms for a moment with an
expression of satisfied proprietorship. Supposing Ah Cum's luck failed for once?
The manager made a gesture of dismissal, and added up the bill for the Misses
Jedson, who were returning to Hong-Kong in the morning. None this end. . Having secured this implement, he burst from his
conductor, and, leaping into the hatch, as clowns generally spring into the clockfaces, when in pursuit of harlequin in the pantomime,—that is, back foremost,—
broke into a fit of loud and derisive laughter, kicking his heels merrily all the
time against the boards. Meantime, O'Higgins wended his way to the Victoria, mulling over this and that
phase, all matters little and big that bore upon the chase. "Stow it, Nab!" exclaimed Quilt, angrily; "the kinchen's awake. ”
“Right!” he said, and hesitated, and then got up and went into the preparationroom.
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