"Where is the boy?" demanded Sir Rowland. Then
the hotel manager struck his palms together sharply, and two Chinese "boys"
came pattering in from the dining room. ‘And if you like, I will tell you why. What else could he do? You can’t kick up a scene on the spur of
the moment in the face of such conflicting values as he had before him. Yet, here she was, in
the ancient Chinese city, weaving in and out of the narrow streets some scarcely
wide enough for two men to walk abreast, streets that boiled and eddied with
yellow human beings, who worshipped strange gods, ate strange foods, and
diffused strange suffocating smells. ‘He was very kind to me. Striking out his foot, he knocked half a dozen
teeth down the janizary's throat; and, seconding the kick with a blow on the head
from the butt-end of the pistol, stretched him, senseless and bleeding on the
ground. CHAPTER IX. After
all, she found herself reflecting, behind her aunt’s complacent visage there was a
past as lurid as any one’s—not, of course, her aunt’s own personal past, which
was apparently just that curate and almost incredibly jejune, but an ancestral past
with all sorts of scandalous things in it: fire and slaughterings, exogamy,
marriage by capture, corroborees, cannibalism! Ancestresses with perhaps dim
anticipatory likenesses to her aunt, their hair less neatly done, no doubt, their
manners and gestures as yet undisciplined, but still ancestresses in the direct line,
must have danced through a brief and stirring life in the woady buff. But not finding it, he had again recourse to the
bludgeon, and began beating the hand fixed on the upper rail, until, by smashing
the fingers, he forced it to relinquish its hold. "
"I should like a little of that plum-tart," said Mrs. So she approached
him with sandwiches.
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