The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 28: what you’re looking at

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22 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. ee whence Xerxes of old came upon Greece with his mighty army. The colonel makes his. appearance and the vehicle moves on, while Terry raises his cork shako, and looks after the beauty so long as she remains ‘in sight. - She has given him her address with the hope of seeing him if he should chance to have leisure—that word chance causes Terry some amusement, for well he knows time will hang like a leaden weight upon his hands until ‘he-dares to venture upon a call. Wrapped up in thoughts that are a mixture of pleasure and pain, the young Briton finds himself brought toa sudden sense of his position, when some one rudely jostles against him. Of course in all great Bombay, it must needs be the baron who thus again flashes athwart his horizon. The Russian is a large, handsome man, bearded like a Pard, and with an aggravating, insolent look upon his face—a fellow who is deeply imbued with the vastness of the White Czar’s domains, and a positive belief that in time the whole world will take its orders from St. — Petersburg. “ He has had long experience playing the diplomat, and knows how to disguise his real feelings when ‘gome- thing can be gained by-so doing. Terry hardly knows whether to notice the rough treat= comicbooks.com