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In the Cage

CHAPTER IX
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Where I am I still see things." And she talked to him even worse, if possible, than she had talked to Jordan.
Little by little, to her own stupefaction, she caught that he was trying to take it as she meant it and that he was neither astonished nor angry.
Oh the British tradesman--this gave her an idea of his resources! Mr.
Mudge would be angry only with a person who, like the drunken soldier in the shop, should have an unfavourable effect on business.

He seemed positively to enter, for the time and without the faintest flash of irony or ripple of laughter, into the whimsical grounds of her enjoyment of Cocker's custom, and instantly to be casting up whatever it might, as Mrs.Jordan had said, lead to.

What he had in mind was not of course what Mrs.Jordan had had: it was obviously not a source of speculation with him that his sweetheart might pick up a husband.

She could see perfectly that this was not for a moment even what he supposed she herself dreamed of.

What she had done was simply to give his sensibility another push into the dim vast of trade.


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