‘And now, monsieur le
major—’
‘I will see you to the door,’ Gerald said, looking with interest at the building
that his observant groom had told him housed a small collection of nuns. Frequently he would take up a box of talc and send a
shower down his back, or fill his palms with the powder and rub his face and
arms and hands. “I only use the weeniest little dab of rouge,” she declared, “and it is really
necessary, because I want to get rid of the ‘pallor effect. The doctor would naturally
offer a hundred objections; he might seriously interfere; so he must be
forestalled. “And by what right do you do anything of the sort?”
“No right at all,” he admitted. It added to the
picturesqueness of the Sha-mien night to observe these gaily coloured lanterns
dancing hither and yon like June fireflies in a meadow. There were cakes and sandwiches—for Ennison a sort of Elysian feast, long
to be remembered. Canton was something like a blind alley; unless
you were native, you couldn't get anywhere except by returning to Hong-Kong
and starting afresh.
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