She could not part with dignity. Rows of roasted duck, brilliantly varnished; luscious vegetables, which she had been warned against; baskets of melon seed and water-chestnuts; men working in teak and blackwood; fan makers and jade cutters; eggs preserved in what appeared to her as petrified muck; bird's nests and shark fins. This double buffetting had sharpened her shrewdness and insight. “There is my aunt,” she said. Melusine started back, blinking. ‘Well, that depends. " "Bull's eye!" piped O'Higgins. What right had she to call herself “Alcide”? It was abominable, an imposture. Do not mistake me. The Ralphs and Mannings and Fortescues came down upon the raw inexperience, upon the blinking ignorance of the newcomer; and before her eyes were fairly open, before she knew what had happened, a new set of guides and controls, a new set of obligations and responsibilities and limitations, had replaced the old.
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