He did not even reply to her for several minutes. Sydney and Brendon vied with one another in their efforts to engage Anna in
conversation, and Miss Ellicot, during the momentary lull, deemed it a
favourable opportunity to recommence siege operations. . Ann
Veronica stared at his foolish, propitiatory smile, his hungry gaze, through one
moment of amazement, then stepped aside and went on her way with a
quickened step. She was not afraid of violence, but she was afraid of something
mean, some secondary kind of force. What a pity!
For all her ignorance of material things—the human inventions which served the
physical comforts of man—how much she knew about man himself! She had
seen him bereft of all those spiritual props which permit man to walk on two feet
instead of four—broken, without resilience. "Well, that beats all I ever heard of!" roared Blueskin. From the point of view of most things in the world of
employment which a woman can do reasonably well and earn a living by, you’re
unripe and half-educated. Mr. ” She replied. Look at me. Rows of roasted duck, brilliantly varnished; luscious vegetables, which
she had been warned against; baskets of melon seed and water-chestnuts; men
working in teak and blackwood; fan makers and jade cutters; eggs preserved in
what appeared to her as petrified muck; bird's nests and shark fins.
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