CHAPTER XVII After the Ten Commandments have been spoken, conscience becomes less something inherent than something acquired. There was an eerie sense of brooding menace about an uninhabited establishment. It jars with all my ideas. The poor old imbecile! Why, this child was a firebrand, a wrecker, if ever he had seen one; and the worst kind because she was unconscious of her gifts. Did you not hear the shot?’ ‘I ain’t saying as I didn’t hear no shot,’ Trodger said carefully, peering at her out of eyes narrowed with interest, ‘but what I do say is, it’s mighty peculiar you saying as how there’s a Frenchman in the case, when it’s as plain as the nose on your face that you’re a Frenchwoman yourself. Inexplicably there flashed into vision the Chinese wedding procession in the narrow, twisted streets of the city, that first day: the gorgeous palanquin, the tomtoms, the weird music, the ribald, jeering mob that trailed along behind. "Somebody ought to get hold of that young man," said Prudence, grimly, as she nodded in Spurlock's direction. Soup would help you feel better, soup and hot tea.
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