Thames sat with Winifred's hand clasped in his own, and commenced a recital of
his adventures, which may be briefly told. One
only. You are wrong even about that man’s scientific
position and his standard of work. “Dear me, what a relief! If I had had any nerves that man would have trampled
upon them long ago. He was full of fabulous stories, not just
tales of his own past in Rome but wonderful fables from
the mysterious Orient and the ancient Greeks, old jokes
and yarns that only he remembered. Besides, how
am I to ride home without them?"
"Don't distress yourself," returned Jack, "you shall walk. The world isn’t ready for girls
to start out on their own yet; that’s the plain fact of the case. Lucy felt her eyes misting up, turning traitor. “Quite on my own,” she said. She hated it, she hated the mission-house;
she hated the sleek lagoon, the palms, the burning sky. ’
‘Sport!’ grumbled her betrothed, but he accompanied them across the ballroom
all the same. ‘Sir?’ enquired the lad.
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