"
"An excellent maxim!" replied his wife, approvingly; "the best I ever heard you
utter. You never
can tell. 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. Whenever ecstasy—
any kind of ecstasy—filled her heart to bursting, these physical expressions
eased the pressure. Winny, this is the last night I shall pass beneath
your father's roof. The atmosphere at dinner
was not propitious. She used to play violin, you know. ’
‘What, a common soldier?’
‘He was not a common soldier. All this—
the island and its affairs—was an old story; but her own peculiar distaste had
vanished to a point imperceptible, for she was seeing the island through her
husband's eyes, as in the future she would see all things. I do wish you could come
and dine with us some evening. He taught
her about crowds, which men were the evilest, how to
locate and dispose society’s garbage. ’
‘I thought so,’ Gerald said with satisfaction. She was reasonably
certain why. All that confidence, born of irony, disappeared; and fear laid
hold of him.
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