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I saw you this morning at Miss Corny’s windows.""Inside each of these Boards," explained the Fairy, "are accumulated the registers with the records of all women of the whole world; of those who have passed away, as well as of those who have not as yet come into it, and you, with your mortal eyes and human body, could not possibly be allowed to know anything in anticipation.""And so are you, old fellow," said the doctor, laughing."I don’t understand you.""Send her here when you have taken away those things."Bethel quitted Mr. Carlyle with the last word, and the latter gazed after him, revolving points in his brain. The mention of Thorn’s name, the one spoken of by Richard Hare, appeared to excite some feeling in Bethel’s mind, arousing it to irritation. Mr. Carlyle remembered that it had done so previously and now it had done so again, and yet Bethel was an easy-natured man in general, far better tempered than principled. That there was something hidden, some mystery connected with the affair, Mr. Carlyle felt sure; but he could not attempt so much as a guess at what it might be. And this interview with Bethel brought him no nearer the point he wished to find out—whether this Thorn was the same man. In walking back to his office he met Mr. Tom Herbert."When the perfume of flowers wafts (hsi jen) itself into a man, he knows the day is warm.""I had just forgotten all about it," Tai-yü rejoined, "many thanks for your kind attention!"The red apricot tree is planted by the sun, and leans against the clouds;"The faint echo of footsteps in the distance stole upon her ear, and Barbara drew a little back, and hid herself under the shelter of the trees, not choosing to be seen by any stray passer-by. But, as they drew near, a sudden change came over her; her eyes lighted up, her cheeks were dyed with crimson, and her veins tingled with excess of rapture—for she knew those footsteps, and loved them, only too well."They don’t all speak like you, Garry," replied Shandon. "They aren’t all in an obedient humour! Suppose they were to refuse to execute my orders?""How ever could she spare the time to get as far as here?" P’ing Erh smiled and replied. "But, she said, she hasn’t anything good to eat, so she bade me, as she couldn’t possibly run over, come and find out whether there be any more crabs or not; (if there be), she enjoined me to ask for a few to take to her to eat at home.""She has had one of those ridiculous dreams again," pursued Miss Carlyle, ignoring the presence of the governess and Lucy. "I was sure of it by her very look when I got in, shivering and shaking, and glancing fearfully around, as if she feared a dozen spectres were about to burst out of the walls. So I taxed her with it, and she could make no denial. Richard is in some jeopardy, she protests, or will be. And there she is, shaking still, although I told her that people who put faith in dreams were only fit for a lunatic asylum."Mr. Carlyle had never thought about the name. But he replied, pretty promptly."Indeed!" said Endymion; "papa is very much in favour of the Church, and, I know, is writing something about it.""Oh, I wish you would," was Barbara’s delighted response. "Do bring it here and join it now. Shall I bribe you?" she added, laughing. "You make this all right, and then you shall bear back grace to Lucy—for I perceive that is what your heart is set upon.""Do you hope it, papa?"Seating himself upstairs next to old lady Chia, he called to a servant-girl to fetch the tray of presents given to him a short while back, and putting on his own trinket of jade, he fumbled about with the things for a bit, and picking up one by one, he handed them to his grandmother to admire. But old lady Chia espied among them a unicorn, made of purplish gold, with kingfisher feathers inserted, and eagerly extending her arm, she took it up. "This object," she smiled, "seems to me to resemble very much one I’ve seen worn also by the young lady of some household or other of ours."Time’s march moves slowly, where weary lives languish in dull places."Yea," said he, "many a time."The two young men, and Fragoso and Joam Garral, thinking no more of danger, rushed out of the house, guns in hand.Lady Feng issued prompt directions to Ts’ai Ming to prepare a register; and sending, there and then, for Lai Sheng’s wife, she asked her to submit, for her perusal, the roll with the servants’ names. She furthermore fixed upon an early hour of the following day to convene the domestics and their wives in the mansion, in order that they should receive their orders; but, after cursorily glancing over the number of entries in the list, and making a few inquiries of Lai Sheng’s wife, she soon got into her curricle, and went home.The question had to be decided before nightfall, and the sooner it was settled the better."I saw him just now," Pao-ch’ai replied, "go out, dressed up in his fineries. But where he is gone to, I don’t know.""Confound the guariba!" he shouted at length. "There will be no end to this, and he will lead me back to the Brazilian frontier. If only he would let go of my case! But no! The jingling of the money amuses him. Oh, you thief! If I could only get hold of you!""Her ladyship. She looks just as if she’d never get over it."One other thing may be told of her. She had given her heart, for good and all, as she owned to herself, to Frank Greystock. She had owned to herself that it was so, and had owned to herself that nothing could come of it. Frank was becoming a man of mark, but was becoming a man of mark without much money. Of all men he was the last who could afford to marry a governess. And then, moreover, he had never said a word to make her think that he loved her. He had called on her once or twice at Fawn Court, as why should he not? Seeing that there had been friendship between the families for so many years, who could complain of that? Lady Fawn, however, had not complained; but just said a word. A word in season, how good is it? Lucy did not much regard the word spoken to herself; but when she reflected that a word must also have been spoken to Mr. Greystock — otherwise how should it have been that he never came again — that she did not like."‘You acted for the best, my man. Now search the place carefully, while I stand here. I am on my parole, I shall not run away. Jacob, go down and help them.’Having instructed Malcolm to take the letter to the lawyer’s house, and, if he was not at home, to inquire where he might be found, Randal adopted the readiest means of composing himself, in the servant’s absence, by lighting his pipe.T’an Ch’un said:Pao-yü withdrew out of the room, and came by the back to the upper apartment; and as soon as madame Hsing caught sight of him, she, before everything else, rose to her feet and asked after old lady Chia’s health; after which, Pao-yü made his own salutation, and madame Hsing drew him on to the stove-couch, where she induced him to take a seat, and eventually inquired after the other inmates, and also gave orders to serve the tea. But scarcely had they had tea, before they perceived Chia Tsung come in to pay his respects to Pao-yü."Which meant, not until the next time. Of all capricious, vain, exacting women, Emma Vane was the worst; and Emma Mount Severn is no improvement upon it; she’s a systematic flirt, and nothing better. I drove recklessly on purpose to put her in a fright, and pay her off.""So I had," replied the fast nobleman addressed, the son of a marquis. "But I am on the lookout, so am forced into them again. I think a ball-room the greatest bore in life.""Lean on me, mamma. When you reach those benches, you can take a good rest before proceeding to the house. It is very warm, and that may have fatigued you.""The gentleman came here before. Couldn’t he come here again?" Then he explained to her the difference of her present position, and in doing so he did say something of her iniquity. He made her understand that the magistrate had gone out of his way at the last inquiry, believing her to be a lady who had been grievously wronged, and one, therefore, to whom much consideration was due. "And I have been grievously wronged," said Lizzie. But now she would be required to tell the truth in opposition to the false evidence which she had formerly given; and she would herself be exempted from prosecution for perjury only on the ground that she would be called on to criminate herself in giving evidence against criminals whose crimes had been deeper than her own. "I suppose they can’t quite eat me," she said, smiling through her tears."We shall have some trouble with France," said the ambassador, "unless there is a change here."While she spoke, orders were given to remove the remnants of the banquet, and inside as well as outside; were served every kind of recherché small dishes. One and all then partook of some of these refreshments, at their pleasure, and rinsing their mouths with tea, they afterwards parted.The pale globe of the sun hung trembling in the haze himself had made. My father rose to see the last, and reared his tall form upright against the deepening background. He gazed as if the course of life lay vanishing below him, while level land and waters drew the breadth of shadow over them. Then the last gleam flowed and fled upon the face of ocean, and my father put his dry lips to my forehead, saying nothing."We must drift," answered Hatteras; "we can’t help ourselves."The effect of this note was to drive Lizzie back upon the Fawn interest. She was frightened about the diamonds, and was, nevertheless, almost determined not to surrender them. At any rate, in such a strait she would want assistance, either in keeping them or in giving them up. The lawyer’s letter afflicted her with a sense of weakness, and there was strength in the Fawn connection. As Lord Fawn was so poor, perhaps he would adhere to the jewels. She knew that she could not fight Mr. Camperdown with no other assistance than what Messrs. Mowbray & Mopus might give her, and therefore her heart softened toward her betrothed. "I suppose Frederic will be here today," she said to Miss Macnulty, as they sat at breakfast together about noon. Miss Macnulty nodded. "You can have a cab, you know, if you like to go anywhere." Miss Macnulty said she thought she would go to the National Gallery. "And you can walk back, you know," said Lizzie."It’s nice in here, it’s nice in here," exclaimed Pao-yü with a chuckle."My dear younger brother," Hsüeh P’an pleaded, with a groan."Your reference to pictures," added Hsüeh P’an smiling, "reminds me of a book I saw yesterday, containing immodest drawings; they were, truly, beautifully done. On the front page there figured also a whole lot of characters. But I didn’t carefully look at them; I simply noticed the name of the person, who had executed them. It was, in fact, something or other like Keng Huang. The pictures were, actually, exceedingly good!"While they indulged in chatting and laughing, the plays they had chosen were all finished; whereupon the tables were cleared of the wines, and the repast was served. The meal over, the whole company adjourned into the garden, and came and sat in the drawing-room. After tea, they at length gave orders to get ready the carriages, and they took their leave of Mrs. Yu’s mother. Mrs. Yu, attended by all the secondary wives, servants, and married women, escorted them out, while Chia Chen, along with the whole bevy of young men, stood by the vehicles, waiting in a group for their arrival."I dare say most young men are excellent when you come to know them. What does Lord George say?"Upon this, the Sawyer being tickled, as men very often are in sad moments, took the doctor by the hand, and gave him the bullet heartily. And the medical man had a loop made to it, and wore it upon his watch chain. And he told the story so often (saying that another man perhaps might have got it out, but no other man could have kept it), that among a great race who judge by facts it doubled his practice immediately."I am waited for, to keep an important engagement," he answered. "And were my time at liberty, I should decline to tell them to you, on my own account, as well as on yours. Lay not discourtesy to my charge, Lady Levison. Were I to speak of the man, even to you, his name would blister my lips.""It’s—it’s—never his own father that he accuses? Justice Hare?"Mr. Otway Bethel, conscious, probably, that nobody would offer bail for him, not even the colonel, did not ask the bench to take it. So the two were fully committed to take their trial for the "Wilful murder, otherwise the killing and slaying of George Hallijohn;" and before night would be on their road to the county prison at Lynneborough.Little notion had she of the broad gauge those questions would run upon. And she was sworn accordingly. Very unwillingly yet; for Afy, who would have told lies by the bushel unsworn, did look upon an oath as a serious matter, and felt herself compelled to speak the truth when examined under it."For if I should be seen and recognized, it might come to hanging, you know, sir. You are expecting that cursed Thorn here, Barbara told me.""Is it the child? You don’t mean to tell me that Herbert has taken Kitty away from her mother!"An uncommon good hand at an impromptu tale was Afy. And Mrs. Latimer consented to her demand. Afy flew upstairs, attired herself once more, put one or two things in a small leather bag, placed some money in her purse, and left the house.This I did not know at present, not having been there long enough; neither had I any terror of that sort, not being quite such a coward, I should hope. But still, as the mantles of the cold trees darkened, and the stony remembrance of the dead grew pale, and of the living there was not even the whistle of a grave-digger — my heart got the better of my mind for a moment, and made me long to be across that stile again. Because (as I said to myself) if there had been a hill to go up, that would be so different and so easy; but going down into a place like this, whence the only escape must be by steps, and where any flight must be along channels that run in and out of graves and tombstones, I tried not to be afraid, yet could not altogether help it."What should you have done?" he smiled."At any rate, his ill doings or well doings cannot affect us for the short period he is likely to remain. You have taken a prejudice against him also, I suppose, Isabel.""There was more said. Mr. Levison, in a shameful sort of manner, asked his uncle, would he let him have five or ten pounds? Sir Peter seemed angry, and asked, what had he done with the fifty-pound note he had made him a present of only the previous morning? Mr. Levison replied that he had sent that away to a brother officer, to whom he was in debt. Sir Peter refused to believe it, and said he had more likely squandered it upon some disgraceful folly. Mr. Levison denied that he had; but he looked confused, indeed, his matter altogether was confused that morning.""My dear," she began, "we all want you to do us a particular favour." As she said this, she held Lucy by the hand, and no one looking at them would have thought that Lucy was a governess and that Lady Fawn was her employer."Nothing does have charms for her that ought to have," growled Justice Hare. "She’s one of the contrary ones. By the way, though," hastily resumed the justice, leaving the objectionable subject, as another flashed across his memory, "they were coupling your name and matrimony together, Carlyle, last night, at the Buck’s Head."Bones, white and bleached, in nameless hill-like mounds are flung,"Who?" asked Joyce."Well, since that be the case," added old lady Chia, "why do you, at your age, try your strength by running about the whole day long? Take him at once along and let them see it! But were you to have called him in there, wouldn’t it have saved a lot of trouble?"As the days passed on, Lady Isabel improved wonderfully. She was soon able to go to the sands in the morning and sit there to enjoy the sea air, watching the waves come up to recede with the tide. She made no acquaintance whatever in the place, and when she had a companion it was Captain Levison. He would frequently join her there, sometimes take her, almost always give her his arm home. Of all things, she disliked the having to take his arm, would a thousand times over rather have taken good old Peter’s. A secret prick of the conscience whispered it might be better if she did not. One day she said, in a joking sort of manner—she would not say it in any other—that now she was strong, she had no need of his arm and his escort. He demanded, in evident astonishment, what had arisen that he might not still afford it, seeing her husband was not with her to give her his. She had no answer in reply to this, no excuse to urge, and, in default of one, took his arm, as usual. In the evening he would be ready to take her to the pier, but they sat apart, mixing not with the bustling crowd—he lending to his manner, as he conversed with her, all that he would call up of fascination—and fascination, such as Francis Levison’s, might be dangerous to any ear, in the sweet evening twilight. The walk over, he left her at her own door; she never asked him in in the evening, and he did not intrude without, as he sometimes would of a morning."Thank you. I will sit outside.""I am quite sure I never thought that!"For the first time since the beginning of the interview, she allowed the impulse of the moment to lead her astray. In her eagerness to complete the act of atonement, she failed to appreciate the severity of the struggle that was passing in Catherine’s mind. She alluded again to Herbert Linley, and she spoke too soon."Hopeless. Quite hopeless, Mrs. Linley.""Uncle Jui," he heard some one on the couch explain, laughing, "was trying to take liberties with me!"Lucy had a few books of her own, and she determined to ask Frank to send her some. Books are cheap things, and she would not mind asking him for magazines, and numbers, and perhaps for the loan of a few volumes. In the mean time she did read Tupper’s poem, and "Pride and Prejudice," and one of Miss Edgeworth’s novels — probably for the third time. During the first week in Bruton Street she would have been comfortable enough, only that she had not received a line from Frank. That Frank was not specially good at writing letters, she had already taught herself to understand. She was inclined to believe that but few men of business do write letters willingly, but that, of all men, lawyers are the least willing to do so. How reasonable it was that a man who had to perform a great part of his daily work with a pen in his hand should loathe a pen when not at work. To her the writing of letters was perhaps the most delightful occupation of her life, and the writing of letters to her lover was a foretaste of heaven; but then men, as she knew, are very different from women. And she knew this also, that, of all her immediate duties, no duty could be clearer than that of abstaining from all jealousy, petulance, and impatient expectation of little attentions. He loved her, and had told her so, and had promised her that she should be his wife, and that ought to be enough for her. She was longing for a letter, because she was very anxious to know whether she might mention his name to Lady Linlithgow; but she would abstain from any idea of blaming him because the letter did not come. 桐林桥口，崔斌带着整整五十名，从华都赶来的北堂口兄弟，将路面封死。 杜胜明的车队过不去，只能停在一百米开外的位置。 车内，杜胜明眯眼看了一眼桥口的人：“这他妈哪头的？！” 桥口处，周家的人统一着装，都穿着黑色T恤，慢慢向道路中央聚集。 “不像是本地的，”大型越野车内，一名青年率先开口说道：“好像是外地的，你看他们的衣服……。” “是外地的，就不是我们的人。”杜胜明降下车窗，抬头喊了一句：“啥意思啊，要踏马收养路费啊？” 崔斌站在人群前侧，面无表情地喊道：“入股余家了，他们的事儿，就是咱自己的事。来，北堂的兄弟，给我剁！” “呼啦啦！” 五十号人听到崔斌的喊声，没有一人犹豫，拎着凶器就冲向了车队。 杜胜明坐在车内，见对方人并不多，立即抬头冲着司机喊道：“往后退退，其他兄弟下车，给我冲散他们。” 话音落，大型越野车后退，后面卡车和其他车辆顶了上去，十几名带队的青年，右手上戴着手套，下车后喊道：“都踏马下车，冲散他们！” 长清的人噼里啪啦地从卡车上跳了下来，迈步也往前冲去。 五六秒后，双方前排人马碰面，瞬间混战在了一块。崔斌右手拎着很短小的尼泊尔砍刀，左手攥着一把寒光四射的军刺，见人群冲来后，侧身闪躲，右手直接向上一挑。 “当啷！” 一把铁棍被架开，崔斌左手攥着小军刺，向左拉了一下身位，一刀就捅进了对方的肋骨。 “噗嗤！” 对方汉子鲜血横流，崔斌左手拔刀，右臂抬起，对着对方的脑袋，咣咣就是两刀。 “嗡！” 双方混战在了一块，一台越野车从胡同内冲了出来，直奔长清人群的中央撞去。 对方见车辆不减速地撞过来，立即纷纷侧身闪躲。一条道路被冲开，车辆宛若快马，直接冲向了杜胜明的那一侧。 “他妈了个B的，还奔我来了。”杜胜明坐在车内骂了一句，挑着眉毛，伸手也从帆布袋子里拽出了刀。 “嘭！” 一声闷响，越野车头撞在了大型SUV侧面，两车剧烈摇晃，车身碎屑横飞，铁板凹陷。 “咣当！” 越野车门率先弹开，在龙城消失了一个多月的大熊，率先冲下了汽车，从后座内斜着拽出了一把一米半长的大砍刀。 这把刀很长，刀柄是两手合握的那种，看着贼像改良版的古代戚家刀。 正常人拿这样的刀干架绝对是傻子，因为它太长了，而街头火拼又不是拍武侠片子，双方贴身干起来，很多人都是闭着眼睛瞎抡，他自己可能都不知道要砍谁，所以那这种刀，根本抡不起来。 但这把刀放在大熊手里，却非常合适，因为他身高和臂长，都远超于常人。 大熊拽着刀下车后，只一步就贴到了大型SUV旁边，双手攥着刀柄，动作略显缓慢地向后扬刀后，双臂明显顿挫蓄力地向车内抡去。 “嘭！” 一刀落，长刀砍在车身上发出的不是金属撞击的声音，而是好像那种用石头砸车门板的动静。 “哗啦！” 车玻璃直接被砍碎，狭长的刀身探进了车内。 与此同时，大熊身后的汽车里冲出来三个人，全部拿着砍刀，踩着对方的车门，向车内一顿猛砸。 车内，杜胜明看见跟铁塔一样的大熊冲出来后，整个人还没等下车，就在后座被划了一刀。但他反应很快，身体半躺着，直接扣开了门锁，一脚踹开了车门。 “噗嗤！” 大熊以前也是环卫口的，他是见过杜胜明的，也知道他就是领头人，所以站在外面，再次扬刀，砍在了对方的大腿上。 杜胜明被堵在车内吃了大亏，拿刀向前一捅，逼退了大熊，随即钻出去，身体靠着车身，抡刀砍退了两人。 “你踏马是那个逃犯？！”杜胜明见过大熊的通缉令，一眼就认出了他。 大熊根本没有理会对方，双手握刀，奔着杜胜明的脑袋就砍了下去。 “当啷！” 杜胜明也会两下子，反应很快地拿刀一架，但竟然没有架住。长刀压下来，打得短刀下坠，前者向左侧一躲，脸颊当场被豁开了一个大口子。 大熊仗着身体素质爆炸，退后一步，扬刀再砍。 杜胜明发现眼前这个小子太楞，而且手劲极大，所以没有选择硬拼，再次拉开身位一躲，右手一刀砍向大熊的腿部。 “嘭！” 大熊回刀调整位置的时候，身体笨重地抬起一脚踹在了杜胜明的身上。后者退了两步，而大熊的右腿也被刀刃划伤。不过这一刀砍在他粗壮的大腿上，并没有影响他的行动力。 杜胜明有点懵啊，他砍对方一刀，身高一米九十多的大熊，连晃悠都不带晃悠的。 “……今天……今天有我在，长清一个人都过不去桐林桥！”大熊瞪着眼珠子，双手握刀向下砍：“别说你了，就是再来五个警员，我也敢整死他。” “当啷！” 杜胜明架了一下刀，转身后退。 这时，长清队伍尾部的十几个人，见到杜胜明被干，全都跑了回来。 大熊站在人群外围，身体动作缓慢，但却刀重，人狠。 三四个人围上来，大熊站在马路牙子上侧，身体前倾着压迫感十足，双手横抡砍刀，直接一刀剁倒了对方两人。 两人后退，胸前，胳膊上，泛起了血淋淋的大口子。 大熊骑着对方四个人，抡刀再砍。 “噗嗤！” 对方两人飙血，身体向后躲避时，脚下失去平衡，直接倒地。 19岁，走投无路，无家可归，被逼无奈下，连杀五名作恶多端的黑警，已然再无回头之路。 到了这个份上，大熊已经没有任何牵挂了。这次回龙城，苏天御是不同意的，但他还是硬跟了回来。 他嘴笨结巴，也不会说什么，但永远感激苏天御在他最难的时候，伸出最温暖的的那只手。 今日归来，大熊是奔着玩命来的。 至此，未来某华人组织协会，最猛的双花红棍，今日正式出道！ …… 余家别苑门口。 一台私家车停滞，两名中年迈步走进了大院内，在余锦荣亲自迎接下，坐在了雨伞下面。</body></html>