To buy the freedom of a poor little Chinese slave-girl! For what was the sing-song girl but a slave, the double slave of custom and of men? Ruth wanted to know keenly what had impelled the idea. To be no longer with Martha was strange. And yet, the doctor recalled an expression of the girl's: that it was not a dissipated face, only troubled. Sc. “No,” she said at last; “I’m a human being—not a timid female. The watermen, who manned the larger wherry, immediately shipped their oars, grappled with the drifting skiff, and held it fast. Blank it was, except for a gate near the bridgehead. ‘You don’t even know what it means, do you?’ Melusine frowned. She moved then, fast, taking refuge behind a Chinese screen that was set beside the four-poster at the back of the room.
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