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“Married?” said Ann Veronica. “I
don’t mind, of course, your seeing her sometimes, still there are differences—
differences in social atmospheres. Some Chinaman might take it into his head to shout:
"Death to the foreign devils!" And out of that wall yonder would boil battle and
murder and sudden death. ‘This is altogether insupportable!’
She dug a hand into the recesses of the petticoat of her riding habit and a
moment later Gerald found himself once again confronting the barrel of her
overlarge and tarnished pistol. ‘I borrow the expression from Melusine. Henceforth, I utterly throw off the yoke you
have laid upon me. Perhaps her odd beauty—and that too was natural—stirred these thoughts into
being. Above was a spacious hall,
connected with it by a flight of stone steps, at the further end of which stood an
immense grated door, called in the slang of the place "The Jigger," through the
bars of which the felons in the upper wards were allowed to converse with their
friends, or if they wished to enter the room, or join the revellers below, they were
at liberty to do so, on payment of a small fine.
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