The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 71: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL, FROM HONG-KONG. BB and spends much of his time, in, the ’ compartment where Doris, her maid and Colonel Averill hold the fort. . fe “When Terry runs, across his Husdian rivai, as_ they stretch their legs and smoke a cigar at some station ‘where a stop is made, the baron does not attempt to con- ceal his keen pleasure over his advantage. Really, he has such positive faith in his own powers that he feels almost contempt at the mere idea of a com- monplace individual entering the lists against him. . To. his mind they are not in the same class. There is an old saying to the effect, that ‘‘Pride must _ have a fall,’’? which possibly the Russian grandec haa never taken to heart. So.the time pases . , Day and night ‘their progress is marked. They have seen some of the famine-stricken communi- ties, though not the worst, and Terry is reminded of the unequal way in which the good things of the world are divided—while millions of the beloved queen’s subjecta are.in mortal distress under, the blazing sun of India, _ wast preparations are being made over in London, with its, limitless wealth, in honor-of the.queen’s jubilee, to take. place the following June. At last they reach the end othe route. » |. »'They.leave the fairly comfortable carriages of the rail- omiclboeoks.com