” He was dismissed, and he understood it. He, a Chinaman, troubling himself over Occidental ideas! With his hands in his sleeves, he proceeded on his way. It was an odd little encounter, that left vague and dubitable impressions in her mind. Without Jack, it was certain that she faced danger if she went outside Golden Square. ‘I suppose this is the cavalier you had with you when you—er—attended the ball the other night?’ ‘Jacques is very useful to me,’ Melusine confirmed, bestowing that same radiant smile on the young man, whose features were instantly suffused with scarlet. Then suddenly he seized a new preparation bottle that stood upon his table and contained the better part of a week’s work—a displayed dissection of a snail, beautifully done—and hurled it across the room, to smash resoundingly upon the cemented floor under the bookcase; then, without either haste or pause, he swept his arm along a shelf of re-agents and sent them to mingle with the debris on the floor. In this attempt he was, however, foiled by the agility of the carpenter, who managed to retreat to the door, against which he placed his back, kicking the boards vigorously with his heel. “Of course it is okay!” Cathy’s voice rose in volume and in pitch. The address was of course her destination, thousands of miles away, an infinitesimal spot in a terrifying space. The poor old imbecile! Why, this child was a firebrand, a wrecker, if ever he had seen one; and the worst kind because she was unconscious of her gifts.
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