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. And in these crowded four weeks, what had she learned? That all horizons were lies: that smiles and handshakes and goodbyes and welcomes were lies: that there were really no to-morrows, only a treadmill of to-days: and that out of these lies and mirages she had plucked a bitter truth—she was alone. Amidship there was also canvas, and like that over the wheel, drab and dirty. And no ill-chances. “Perhaps for myself I do not mind, but this man is sure to find out some day, and he will not like having been deceived. You do not know him. She knew that the stairs they had to negotiate to the vestry were extremely narrow, and she had made her plans.
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