‘Oh, you may come to me on any mission you like,’ uttered Mrs Sindlesham roguishly. The kindly American consul-general had himself taken her to the bank, where her banknotes had been exchanged for a letter of credit, and had thoroughly advised her. She rose and attacked Lucy, kicking her with the grafted leg that was too big for her body. Gerald sympathised with his friend’s irritation. Every now and then something familiar in her tone, the poise of her head, the play of her eyes startled him. His features were regular, and finely-formed; his complexion bright and blooming,—a little shaded, however, by travel and exposure to the sun; and, with a praiseworthy contempt for the universal and preposterous fashion then prevailing, of substituting a peruke for the natural covering of the head, he allowed his own dark-brown hair to fall over his shoulders in ringlets as luxuriant as those that distinguished the court gallant in Charles the Second's days—a fashion, which we do not despair of seeing revived in our own days. ’ ‘Because I have never heard anything so ridiculous,’ Gerald announced. And yet, at the end of this prayer a subconscious thought broke through to consciousness. ‘Aye, that she was. Sampans with fish and fruit and vegetables swarmed about, while overhead gulls wheeled and swooped and circled. So I introduced him to my father-in-law like a shot.
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