Only her face was clear, frail and delicate, almost flower-like, with the sad haunting eyes ever watching his. Prepared as he was for a dreadful shock, and with his nerves strung to endure it, Jack absolutely recoiled before the appalling object that met his gaze. Were the parents agreeable? Were they of age? Had the license been procured? But here, in a far country, only the velvet manacles of wedlock were necessary. Above was a spacious hall, connected with it by a flight of stone steps, at the further end of which stood an immense grated door, called in the slang of the place "The Jigger," through the bars of which the felons in the upper wards were allowed to converse with their friends, or if they wished to enter the room, or join the revellers below, they were at liberty to do so, on payment of a small fine. "She is my lawful wife. That is a part of the show in Hong-Kong. She tugged at my coat and said, ‘I know of the blue-eyed maid. She thought of all sorts of odd and desperate expedients, and with passionate petulance rejected them all. Good looks, with a melancholy cast, always drew sentimental females. The sun was all but gone now, the horizon a deep shade of purple. I won’t try. Amid this varied throng,—varied in appearance, but alike in character,—one object alone, we have said, rivetted Mrs. Sometimes the music would be tender and dreamy, like a native mother's crooning to her young; sometimes it would be so gay that the flesh tingled and the feet were urged to dance; again, it would be like the storms crashing, thunderous.
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