Ho-hum! CHAPTER IX The Hong-Kong packet lay alongside the warehouse frontage. She looked at me as though I were some unclean thing, as though my soul were weighted with every sin in the calendar. She made a curious movement toward her niece, then suddenly, convulsively, she dabbed down something lumpy on the table and turned to follow her brother. She had a gold watch, a very good gold watch that had been her mother’s, a pearl necklace that was also pretty good, some unpretending rings, some silver bangles and a few other such inferior trinkets, three pounds thirteen shillings unspent of her dress and book allowance and a few good salable books. The poor boy, whose hands were pinioned behind him, looked very pale, but neither trembled, nor exhibited any other symptom of alarm. "Where is he?" he cried. " The two boys, then, emerged upon the landing, and were about to descend the stairs, when the voices of Mr. Wet as he was, he felt if he lay down in the grass, he should perish with cold; while, if he sought a night's lodging in any asylum, his dress, stained with blood and covered with dirt, would infallibly cause him to be secured and delivered into the hands of justice. Even this man-hunting machine was willing to grant the boy his honeymoon. "I couldn't bear to see you in it. She wore a wonderful dress of turquoise blue, made by a great dressmaker for a function which she knew very well now that she would never attend. Nothing would stop her, and she was prepared to face the consequences. She thought of the smiles she would gather when she brought forth his first grandson.
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