To Ruth the thought of Hartford no longer projected upon her vision a city of spires and houses and tree-lined streets. 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. Chapter XXI HER SISTER’S SECRET “I think,” Lady Ferringhall said, “that you are talking very foolishly. You'll find the benefit of it by and by. You will wonder why he did not hold the pearls until Father returned. There was a flash and a loud report. There was going to be no quarter between these two. I will confide it to Father Spencer, who will acquaint you with it when I am no more. They had a universe to talk about—two universes. He was unaware that his illness had opened the way to the inherent conscience and that the acquired had been temporarily blanketed, or that there was any ancient fanaticalism in his blood. "Trenchard," he muttered; "Aliva Trenchard—they were right, then, as to the name. She is a fortune-teller and a vessel for man’s pleasure. " "My turn comes before yours, Sir," interposed his better half. To-night there seemed to be a new brilliancy in her eyes, a deeper quality in her tone. The ladies can't sleep in their beds for him; and as to the men, they daren't go to bed at all.
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