The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 279: what you’re looking at

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-THE GIRL sient seals slime 273 ron a can) D*Uzes and Duchess D’ Alengon,, who have much of the mi anagement in their hands. | Paris is nothing it not generous, and since Lent has revently closed the period of sackcloth aud ashes, society: 18 making up for lost time.’ | Doris, standing there at the side of the Englishman, casts qhick, eager glances around. She sees the gaudy decorations, the wonderful toilets of these ladies who set the fashion for the whole civilized world, and hears the buzzing of many voices together with merry Janghters yet these things make brt a mechanical impression upon her mind. ‘She seeks among these throngs one face that is dear to her heart. In the years gone ‘by he has been to hera devoted father, and it is the memory of the happy past that has enabled her to push on over all obstacles when the cry came from Macedonia, and this beloved parent was in danger. Can he be among such merrymakers? Remembering - his old-time repugnance to such scenes, she fears Sandy may have made a blunder—that his eager desire to do his beloved mistress a favor has led the zealous Scot to mistake another for Warren Evans. Every man has his double, and the Highlander had but scant time for observation after all. : Thus. she argues, a8 if to still the tumultuous throb- comicbooks.com