"What has happened?" Ruth asked. A traffic of copious barges slumbered
over the face of the river-barges either altogether stagnant or dreaming along in
the wake of fussy tugs; and above circled, urbanely voracious, the London
seagulls. They proved all sorts of
things perhaps, but they were thick, unequal, pitiful pieces of work. "He left Dollis Hill at ten o'clock on
that night, and has not since returned. ”
“Please tell me why?” she asked. Wood
dandled his little charge to and fro, after the most approved nursery fashion,
essaying at the same time the soothing influence of an infantine melody proper
to the occasion; but, failing in his design, he soon lost all patience, and being, as
we have before hinted, rather irritable, though extremely well-meaning, he lifted
the unhappy bantling in the air, and shook him with so much good will, that he
had well-nigh silenced him most effectually. He
sells his daughter to a geisha or a sing-song master, and the girl is rented out
until the debt is paid. "
The phrase was new, but Ruth nodded understandingly. A lesson learned.
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