The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 115: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 109 Now Terry hasa good voice, and can bring out the expression with thie best possible results. This is one of the gifts nature bestowed upon him in lieu of a hand- some phiz and the figure of an Apollo. ‘So he takes the clipping and glances over it. ‘Where did you get it, may F ask?’’ ‘From an obscure American paper published in Ohio, I believe. But pray, go on, Mr. Donahue.”’ Terry, leaning up against the wall of the Frenchman’s inn, so different from the ordinary Persian: manzil with its -squatting ohess-players, proceeds to read. "met comicbooks.com