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Updated: June 29, 2025
But to-night she was rather pale and listless, her rose-petal loveliness emphasised thereby perhaps. An unusual air of indifference hung about her as she stood there amid this throng of martial jostlers who craved the honour of a dance and at whom she smiled a thought mechanically over the top of her slowly moving fan.
And so the overcrowded docks filled up with waiting vessels, while Lascars and Levantine Greeks, Cingalese and Chinamen, jostled one another in the cafés. The other jostlers were principally Americans of fabulous wealth: at least as they thronged the shipping offices they said so.
The distance they had made was short, but as they reached the door the pressure upon them increased dangerously. Clubs rose in the air, hats flew, the whirlpool heaved tumultuously, and the steel door clanged. Happy Fear was safe inside, but the jostlers were outside baffled, ugly, and stirred with the passion that changes a crowd into a mob.
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