The grim mockery of it!—those South Sea loafers, taking
advantage of Enschede's Christianity and imposing upon him, accepting his
money and medicines and laughing behind his back! No doubt they made the
name a byword and a subject for ribald jest in the waterfront bars. They would suffer amazing hardships to hunt the snow-leopard;
but in the Temple of Five Hundred Gods they would not take the trouble to ask
the name of one!
But this girl, she was alone. By his side sat a remarkably stout dame, to whom he paid as
much attention as it was in his iron nature to pay. Beyond was an avenue of tall poplars that rose like
columns, disappearing into undulating hills that were
black with sleeping houses and fertile soil. ” She
gestured to an abandoned farmhouse down a long stretch
of icy dirt road. "
"A short man, isn't he, about your height, Sir,—with a yellow beard, and a face
as sly as a fox's?"
"Hem!" replied Wood, coughing slightly to conceal a smile; "the description's
not amiss. ”
“I thought you would find that out. If it is that you
need these things, then of course we will go there. She kissed him on the bridge of his
nose. ”
“It’s all the same,” said Miss Miniver. too young to be of any use. The haste to send her upon her way now had but one interpretation—the
recognition of his own immediate danger, the fear that if this tender association
continued, he would end in offering her a calamity quite as impossible as that
which had happened—the love of a man who was in all probability older than
her father! The hurt was no less intensive because it was so ridiculous.
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