The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 171: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 166 the inapiration that draws him over desert and steppe, sea and mountains, for with love burning in the heart. tro obstacle can be too great. | As he sits there how vividly he sees again the many wleasant minutes he has spent in her society. Yes, he ean even in fancy hear her soft sweet voice repeating after him the last few lines of the. little Persian tale in verse for whivh she had conceived such a fancy: ‘“"he old man and the sultan both are gone; The road to Naishapur runneth on; Yet'still the lovely blood-red roses bloom And fill the air with ruby-lipped perfume; And scorn falls not on him who all the day Dreams there among the roses by the way.’’ Those words come to Terry again as he sits—they seem to be so deeply associated with her personality that -he will never forget them. - Softly the. night-wind murmurs: among the cypress and plane trees beyond the window—some lover is serenading his Dulcinea near by, and the tinkle of the musical instrument, together with his mellow voice raised in sturdy song, appeals to the romantic vein in the. man who battles with his eager heart in the window. Somehow the memory of the persistent baron is the: main cause of Terry’s uneasiness, and until the Russian comicbooks.com