The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 110: what you’re looking at

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‘104 «= sis THE. GIRL FROM HONGKONG. --*E have never doubted: it, and consider myself'a‘very fortunate young woman to have two such devoted tava: liers. Indéed,' I am grateful.” ’ Terry remembers, anid immediately recovers. ° Yes, there are fwo—he- had: forgotten the baron, and that individual is a man who will not long suffer himself to be ignored. ° When he goes on. it is with less warmth, but: what he says he means, as she well knows. Why is it that lovely; gentle woman delights in tortur- ‘ing the man she loves? - ee a Gee Philosophers have. puzzled over such. an anomaly’and ‘given it up in despair. sam: Pe | S Yet it is true, as many a good fellow has found; much to his chagrin and -bewilderment. ‘ Doris has for some time been wrestling with’ her heart: Terry does not fill the description of the knight: she has dreamed would come to win her hand—indeed,- with his homely face he was at first’ an object of indifference: to her. “ ee : The baron—ah, there is a man of whoriany girl “might be. proud—the possessor: of'a title;-of blue blood, -con- nected in a distant way with the Romanofts, ‘In good" favor at the throne, wealthy, and-above all with a-mag-. nificent* physique and patrician face.. = - 9 9 =: -It isthe coldness of ‘his eye-that has kept Doris fren: comicbooks.com