"There's another instance of your wilfulness and want of taste. There was some one there. If there was a Yankee bar-keep in HongKong, James Boyle would soon locate him. I do not ask if you are entirely English, but if you say truly when you say you are at my service. The winter had turned sea and sky to a wet gray. Restraining with an effort his intense curiosity, he talked of general subjects only, trying his best to entertain her. They leave them out of novels—these incompatibilities. At the present moment she was living in a world of her own creation, a carnival of brave men and fair women, characters out of the tales she had so newly read for the first time. Already she had sent him twenty pounds, and never written to explain to him why it was she had not sent it back sharply directly he returned it. It consisted of a close jerkin of brown frieze, ornamented with a triple row of brass buttons; loose Dutch slops, made very wide in the seat and very tight at the knees; red stockings with black clocks, and a fur cap. ‘Seems quiet enough,’ observed the junior officer, his gaze raking the shuttered windows of the building’s grey stone frontage. Ann Veronica tried to seem absolutely unconcerned. Will you please—Not now, or I must go.
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