‘Which is why I feel sure he will utterly repulse the girl, even if she is his granddaughter. Grace-church Street was entirely deserted, except by a few stragglers, whose curiosity got the better of their fears; or who, like the carpenter, were compelled to proceed along it. So he sharpened a score of pencils, and after fiddling about and rewriting the last page he had written the previous night, he plunged into work. "That is easily explained. " "And what is a geisha girl?" Not to have heard of the geisha! It was as if she had asked: "What is Paris?" What manner of tourist was this who had heard neither of the geisha of Japan nor of the sing-song girl of China? Before he could marshal the necessary phrases to explain, Ruth herself indicated her thought. The walls were bare, and painted in stone-colour; the floors, devoid of carpet; the beds, of hangings; the windows, of blinds; and, excepting in the thief-taker's own audience-chamber, there was not a chair or a table about the premises; the place of these conveniences being elsewhere supplied by benches, and deal-boards laid across joint-stools. Imagine her, putting herself to all this delay and inconvenience for a young wastrel she did not know and who, the moment he got on his feet, would doubtless pass out of her life without so much as Thank you! And it was ten to one that she would not comprehend the ingratitude. It was painted in the early seventeenth century by a minor artist named DuPre. ” “That brings us back,” said Ann Veronica, “to the mystery. She thought of the smiles she would gather when she brought forth his first grandson. We stepped from the Embassy into the motor—and oh! I thought that he was dead. ” “Come, Molly,” said Mr. Spurling, and her now accepted suitor, resumed their seats.
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