The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 195: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG: 189 Of course Terry does not dream of this as he passes a burly soldier who has just issued from the place, and who turns to look after them with wonder, for it 1s not often the fencing master has a caller of the gentler sex, the ladies of St. Petersburg: never having taken to athletics with the vim shown by their lovely .sisters of Vienna, Paris and New York. P ~ Once under the low arch Terry leads his veiled com- panion along a passageway where grand dukes have many times walked. A door swings open to his touch. They are now in a large room, the arena of the club. ‘Several bouts are in progress, the men fencing in their shirt: sleeves, with gantlets on their hands and a wire mask protecting their faces. ‘There is nothing new in this to our Englishman, for he-has handled a. rapier himself in his day, and was called a fair student by his old Parisian teacher; possess- ing a quick eye anda strong wrist, two leading requisites for success. .-No doubt Doris sees something: to admire in their quick, panther-like-actions, for it is natural for a woman to be interested in such things — her horror of war and bloodshed. ~ --Nevertheloss,: some” other unotif causes this, eager comicbooks.com