’ ‘She once more,’ came in disgust from the girl on the bed. She found herself again in the presence of some element in life about which she had been trained not to think, about which she was perhaps instinctively indisposed to think; something which jarred, in spite of all her mental resistance, with all her preconceptions of a clean and courageous girl walking out from Morningside Park as one walks out of a cell into a free and spacious world. After all, what can it matter? It was just to make sure. The winter had turned sea and sky to a wet gray. 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. It was horrible, but what could she do? She meant to live her own life, and he meant, with contempt and insults, to prevent her. I'm neither an infidel nor an agnostic, so I'll content myself by saying that the hand of God is in this somewhere. It was the moment for smiles. Brute! Fool! To have come to her on such an errand. He squatted and threw his arm around the backs of her knees. What was it in her heart or mind or soul that went out to this man? Music—was that it? Was he powerless to stir her without the gift? But hadn't he fascinated her by his talk, gentle and winning? Ah, but that had been after he had played for her. You have never known what it is to want food, raiment, shelter. ‘You are outrageous. “You are too good for me,” she said in a low voice.
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