Part 2 In the late afternoon, as Ann Veronica was gathering flowers for the dinnertable, her father came strolling across the lawn toward her with an affectation of great deliberation. All the sombre visions she had been pressing back, fighting out of her thoughts, swarmed over the barrier and crushed her. “Look round the table,” she said. Yet the thing hidden within her called and called. To preserve herself, however, from destitution, or what she considered worse, she wedded a journeyman carpenter, named Sheppard. ” “I don’t care how we meet,” she said. A white man, wandering about the streets of Canton at night, was a challenge to such a catastrophe. His voice had changed, the joy had gone out of it; and she understood that something from the past had rolled up to spoil this hour. Perhaps you'll call that charity: I call it defeating the ends of justice. Very slowly emerging out of a phase of stupefaction, these personal affairs and her personal problem resumed possession of her mind. "More slang," he said. In the South Seas, money is the eliminated middleman. For the fresh and feverish hue of lip which years ago characterised this feature, was now substituted a pure and wholesome bloom, evincing a total change of habits; and, though the coarse character of the mouth remained, in some degree, unaltered, it was so modified in expression, that it could no longer be accounted a blemish. ” Ann Veronica reflected. She opened her mouth and inhaled water.
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