” He examined the emerald in his hands and placed it carefully on the glass table. She was by his side. Had he found the secret door? Running to the centre, she tried to judge where the knocking came from. She found herself asking more and more curiously, “Why, on the principle of the survival of the fittest, have I any sense of beauty at all?” That enabled her to go on thinking about beauty when it seemed to her right that she should be thinking about biology. Returning to the audience-chamber in a by-no-means enviable state of mind, he commanded the Jew to throw the body of Thames into the Well Hole. He would require things of her, and she would be passionately concerned to meet his requirements. What right had a young woman to possess the scarring and intimate knowledge of that dreg of human society, the beachcomber? CHAPTER II Ah Cum lived at No. Sheppard made an effort to speak, but her voice was choked by emotion. ‘Where are you taking me?’ she asked, assuming a fearful accent. “Quite unusually cold for the time of year,” he said. Even if you pretend sometimes to be without sense. What else was there lurked in shadows and deep places; if in some mood of reverie it came out into the light, it was presently overwhelmed and hustled back again into hiding. He pushed her back forcefully into her seat with his lips, his body automatically responding to her kiss. In the beginning Ah Cum would run his glance speculatively over the assortment and select that individual who promised to be the most companionable.
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