The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 216: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

va THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. A man may rush into afolazing building to save an imperiled soul, or brave the fury of the tempestuous torrent for the same reason, and prove himself’a hero; but while such action may be grand in its spectacular effects, it cannot compare with the quiet devotion of the man who cheerfully places his life in jeopardy by an association with Nihilists, whose bloodthirsty methods his whole nature condemns, simply to be near the woman he loves. This noble act forever disposes of any doubt Doris may have entertained respecting his feelings toward her- self—it also disposes of the Apollo-like baron at tho same time, for she can never again compare the two men. Although at the time he may not know it, Terry has ‘made progress in his suit with leaps and bounds by this simple sacrifice, this quiet determination to go wherever she goes. Smolensko is no longer regarding them—he has glided over to the wall and appears to be eagerly bending his eye to the small loophole through which the areha may be observed. ~ He beckons to the Englishman. “Took!? he whispers in ‘Terry’s ear, ving asids. * And the man from London, glueing his eye to the orifice, gazes upon a spectacle he will not soon forget. comicbooks.com