The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 176: what you’re looking at

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170 THE GIRL FROM RONG-KONG. vim and determination that have ever been a part of his nature. In a brief time his companions have been sent with | the luggage in adrosky to the hotel at which he ex- pects to stop, while Terry in another vehicle is driven along the Nefskoi Perspective. The promenade is gay with color—ladies are out tak- ing advantage of a fine day in early spring, to do a little shopping at the various handsome stores or see t1¢ sights. To Terry, so fresh from the heat of India, the air is cold and raw, pregnant with the seeds of ‘pneumonia, He shivers at sight of the heaps of snow, and cowers still closer in the fur coat picked up in an interior town, without which he must have been frozen ta death some night on the cars. Ugh! if this be holy Russia, the less he sees of the ezar’s eminent domain the better he will be pleased. His fancy runs to Oriental scenes, and the Jand of snow and ice presents few attractions in his sight. Just now, as we know, it is the Mecca of his passion— as the devoted followers of Mabomet make their devo- tions with the face toward that city where lies the sacred caaba,; so Terry Donahue has strained his eyes to catch his first glimpse of St. Petersburg, believing as he does that it contains the divinity he worships, comicbooks.com