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‘But you are not a surgeon,’ protested Melusine. “And for me it has been Pride and Pride and Pride!
“I am the prodigal daughter. “I will tell you as much as this,” she continued. “I won’t go home,” she said; “I won’t!” and she evaded the clutch of the
fatherly policeman and tried to thrust herself past him in the direction of that big
portal. He stood there, large and dark, enunciating, in his
clear voice from beneath his large mustache, clear flat sentences, deliberately
kindly. She opened her suitcase—new and smelling
strongly of leather—and took out of it a book, dogeared and precariously held
together, bound in faded blue cloth and bearing the inscription: The Universal
Handbook. “You’ve got my view,” he said, after a pensive second. ‘Well, I can see you won’t let it alone, so what do you
propose to do about the wench?’
‘I’ll die before I let it alone,’ Gerald vowed. His heart was beating, but faintly and
slowly, with ominous intermissions. ’ She paused,
struggling for the word. Gay, I've been in many odd quarters of
our city—have visited haunts frequented only by thieves—the Old Mint, the
New Mint, the worst part of St. Not if I read her aright.
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