She finished the olive and looked up. ‘Too late by the time I realised to what a dunderhead I’d pledged my friendship. Their journey had made them indolent, the afternoon was warm, and it seemed impossible to breathe a sweeter air. I forget the particulars, but I know it was something very disagreeable. One swift glance about the room, and a sensation of grim foreboding swept through him. Its importance had vanished with her abandonment of compromise. "Good-bye, young man; and good luck. At times I swear I’ve never met a more jaded fifteen-year-old, and your lie about being sixteen didn’t get by me for one second, believe it. "Tell me, what did they call you?" "Well, the old Kanaka cook used to call me the Golden One, but the natives called me the Dawn Pearl. Melusine felt the calloused hand grasp around hers. Perhaps she had found this new thing in life, the thing wonderful. He was painfully in earnest, too. She resolved not to allow him or her hunger detract from the performance at hand, as it would be a special one, an evening to be remembered in the gray days to follow like a precious jewel. So, here he was, on the last lap of middle age, in China, having missed all the thrills in life except one—the war against Death. For what could be more ironical than for Howard Spurlock to see himself grow famous under the name of Taber? The ambrosia of which he had so happily dreamt!—and this gall and wormwood! He stood up and rapped his pipe on the rail.
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