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Updated: June 21, 2025
But a few days after he went up to London on a little visit, and when he returned he called Jinty into the study. "This," he said, opening a case, "will perhaps make up to the friendless little stranger for your unjust suspicions!" He handed Jinty a pearl-edged locket with a painting of a Chinese lady's head. "Chinese faces are so similar that it may serve as a remembrance of her own mother.
"Gone! That can't be! Unless unless " Mrs. Barbara hesitated, and Jinty knew they were thinking the same thing. "Have you told Ah Lon, deary?" "I did this afternoon, and she cried. I never saw her cry before!" "Ah, jes' so! You can't trust they foreigners. But I'll sift this business, I shall!" vigorously said Mrs. Barbara. But for days the disappearance of the locket was a mystery. In Mrs.
Pushing back his spectacles into the very roots of his white hair, the professor stared feebly round on the company, and twiddled in his fingers a sheet of thin foreign paper. "Yes, sir?" Mrs. Barbara turned to her master eagerly alert for the news, and Jinty wondered if it were to say the dream-father was coming home at last.
It was a rebuff, and Jinty got many another as the days went on. Do what she could to please and amuse the little foreigner, Ah Lon shrank from her persistently. All Jinty's treasures, dolls and toys and keepsakes were exhibited, but Ah Lon turned away indifferently.
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