F. He halted,—looked
fearfully around,—stopped again, and exclaimed aloud, "I don't like the job; and
yet it must be done, or Mr. Your
adoptive father understands mankind better. To reach the
Sha-mien—and particularly the Hotel Victoria—one crossed a narrow canal,
always choked with rocking sampans over and about which swarmed yellow
men and women and children in varied shades of faded blue cotton. Instinctively she knew—some human recollection she had inherited—that
she must not disturb him in this man-agony. "He will kill me," cried Thames. In another minute, the tramp of horses' feet told that the
perpetrators of the outrage had effected their escape. There was a gallows erected, and a great mob round it—thousands of
people, and all with white faces like corpses. The colour slowly left her cheeks, the lines of her
mouth hardened. He looked at his port wine as though
that tawny ruby contained the solution of the matter. And afterward she saw a very much larger and more enthusiastic gathering, a
meeting of the advanced section of the woman movement in Caxton Hall, where
the same note of vast changes in progress sounded; and she went to a soiree of
the Dress Reform Association and visited a Food Reform Exhibition, where
imminent change was made even alarmingly visible.
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