The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 177: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 171 Eveh now as he drives along the renowned avenue. with brilliant equipages darting hither and thither, and crowds of well-dressed people on the sidewalks, Terry is giving his whole attention to the task of looking from face to face, with the mad hope that he may a little sooner gaze upon Doris. How singular that an attack of love should prove so severe a disease as to make a piugrim on a voyage of sight-seeing actually forget to turn back for a second look at the most remarkable for- tress in existence since the fall of the French Bastile, and even when the Winter Palace of the czar is men- tioned by the tsvostchik who wields reins and whip in his service, he shows a listlessness thut almost paralyzes the fellow. Fair faces Terry sees by saree for nowhere can such lovely ladies be found as in this gay Paris of the frozen North; but alas, they are strangers, and Doris does not dawn upon his vision during the drive. At last, thank heaven, the address she gave him its reached, and it 18 only with a great effort that he masters his emotion, so much depends upon the result of the coming meeting. ® * It appears to be a family hotel, patronized by foreign- ers on account of the French chef who presides over the kitchen, since the Russian cooking is abominable in the eyes of Anglo-Saxon, German and Gaul. | comicbooks.com