Though within the
last two days he had committed several heinous offences, and one of a darker
dye than any with which the reader has been made acquainted, his breast was not
yet so callous as to be wholly insensible to the stings of conscience. When the hero finally did appear, Ruth became filled
with gentle self-mockery. Paris looms behind—a tragedy of strange
recollections—here she emerges Phœnix-like, subtly developed, a flawless
woman, beautiful, self-reliant, witty, a woman with the strange gift of making all
others beside her seem plain or vulgar. He refused. “Come,” she said. "Never heard of a sing-song girl; never heard of a geisha! Flower of the
Lotus: the sing-song girl called her that. "
The Chinaman paused. ‘And, if this was not enough,’ went on the lady furiously, ‘you dare to say I am
French. Everything in this world changed—except human folly.
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