“Very well,” he said, “I will go. ’ Handing over the guineas, he added, ‘For you. ’ The footman did not object, but it was plain he felt he was neglecting his duty, for he emitted an admonitory cough, causing the captain to pause in his way to the library across the hall. You're easy to please. ‘This from a man who calls himself my friend. Do you think it’s nothing to me to have my daughter running about London looking for odd jobs and disgracing herself?” “Sha’n’t get odd jobs,” said Ann Veronica, wiping her eyes. And this great mellow place, this London, now was hers, to struggle with, to go where she pleased in, to overcome and live in. There, in a little tea and sweetstuff shop, she bought and consumed slowly and absent-mindedly the insufficient nourishment that is natural to her sex on such occasions. 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. ‘Well, what was I to think, miss? Martha never wrote nothing about you, and I did ask. It was, in a way, something of a joke to the doctor: psychology and physiognomy on an island which white folks did not visit more than three or four times a year, only then when they had to. It is one of God’s laws that a woman may defend her honour, even with the shedding of blood.
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