Ruth broke the exquisite pose by summoning Ah Cum, who was lured into a lecture upon the water-clock. He paused at the bamboo curtain of her room, which was in semi-darkness. Mr. Sheppard, whose maternal fears drew her in another direction, hurried off to the Mint. She had looked up from her seat at the small round table in the centre of the parlour which, together with the wooden armchairs beside the small fireplace, and a sideboard next the single casement, was all the furniture the place afforded. “I think, perhaps if you will excuse me, that we will defer the luncheon. The chair had extension arms over which a man might comfortably dangle his legs. They flash to and fro, they thrill us with expectancy. He had had five children at irregular intervals, of whom Ann Veronica was the youngest, so that as a parent he came to her perhaps a little practised and jaded and inattentive; and he called her his “little Vee,” and patted her unexpectedly and disconcertingly, and treated her promiscuously as of any age between eleven and eight-and-twenty.
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