” She tried to sound convincing as she looked away hotly. “I suppose you’re like the rest of them. But there was no feeling of remorse; there was only the sensation of exaltation. Rows of roasted duck, brilliantly varnished; luscious vegetables, which she had been warned against; baskets of melon seed and water-chestnuts; men working in teak and blackwood; fan makers and jade cutters; eggs preserved in what appeared to her as petrified muck; bird's nests and shark fins. ” “But I can’t help but notice from your bookshelf that you read all sorts of horror and science fiction. Two or three podgy-looking old men with wives to match, half-a-dozen overdressed girls, and a couple of underdressed American ones, who still wore the clothes in which they had been tramping half over London since breakfast time. “Miss Pellissier,” Brendon said gently, “I am afraid that some fresh trouble has come to you. There was a strained, eager expression on his face. Together they crept through the erstwhile drawing room and entered the massive flagged hall. It drives him to my island, where I can study him to my heart's content. Inside was Anna, leaning a little forward to watch the passers-by, bright-eyed, full to the brim of the insatiable curiosity of youth—the desire to understand and appreciate this new world in which she found herself. For a long time there had been a standing offer from the company at Copeley's to take over the McClintock plantation; and today he had decided to sell.
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