She attempted by a sheer act of will to end the
scene, to will herself out of it anywhere. To
buy the freedom of a poor little Chinese slave-girl! For what was the sing-song
girl but a slave, the double slave of custom and of men? Ruth wanted to know
keenly what had impelled the idea. “That’s not working so well for you, is it?” She
looked at him sheepishly, bringing a Kleenex out of her
pocket to wipe away the excess. “What else can happen?” asked Miss Miniver, with a little weak gesture at the
glow. There will be no more children in this
house, not ever! And if anyone ever tries bringing
children into our house again, I shall kill the lot of them. And it's a
maxim of universal application: or, at least, of universal practice. She thought
of her aunt and that purse that was dropped on the table, and of many
troublesome and ill-requited kindnesses; she thought of the help of the Widgetts,
of Teddy’s admiration; she thought, with a new-born charity, of her father, of
Manning’s conscientious unselfishness, of Miss Miniver’s devotion. When Ann
Veronica got it she had at first a wild, fantastic idea that it contained a tip. What a mercy that the blow aimed at her by the ruffian,
Wild, though it brought her to the brink of the grave, should have restored her to
reason! Ah! she stirs. Yield,
villain!"
"Never!" replied Jonathan. Kneebone, Van Galgebrok, and Baptist
Kettleby—all of whom greeted him cordially. . ”
“Then come back. They were terrible,
horrible people. ‘I was not born to this.
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