The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 107: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 101 @ould do to-keep from pouncing on him. I’d give a pocketful of their tomans for an opportunity to lay hands on the rascal. How my fingers would close about his throat, anil with what cheerfulness I’d shake him until his teeth rattled in his’ head ‘like the castanets of a Spanish gypsy dancer! But I thought discretion’ the better part of valor. He had many friends there;‘and ‘besides, such action would never ‘reveal what we want to know concerning his motives and who hired him.” “And why they ran away with the lady, sahib, who would have been lost only for the bravery of my most excellent mandarin,” gays Pekoe Tay-’ 7 ‘“Come, don’t give us any of that, my good fellow. I believe if everybody thought as you do, they’d be mak- ing me out ‘a hero, when I’m only a very common individual.” - The Chinaman evidently has ideas of his own with regard to this matter, but he does not ventilate them further. : : : ‘Terry soon shows up again at the caravansary of M. Prevost. : . There is an attraction in this quarter which draws him éven as the riagnetic pole has an influence upon the needle of the mariner’s compass. ° * He yearns to be of assistance to Doris, never dream- ‘ing bow much that independent young person: has comicbooks.com