The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 38: what you’re looking at

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32. THE GikL PROM HONG-KONG:* ' a; host, of: servants;to waitiupon guests and. pall puna cords to cool the rooms. ee ef Many lights,flash from the windows, and the seund of. voices. can be. plainly. heard. . : o. Evidently the colonel is entertaining some-.of _his- _ fellow -officers. and. their wives,- previous . to. departing upon his mission tothe Afghan border... .: > | | Terry, frowns. upon discovering. this—he has been hug-- ‘ging to his heart the prospect of a delightful ¢éfe-d-téfe- witn the girl from..Hong-Kong. Singularly enongh a man in love always detests a crowd, while with! a woman the case;is quite. different... ae ge ee@agl Nevertheless, half a boat is better than ne bread; and: Terry. concludes .if will do him seme- good to look. npon. the inspiring face of his goddess,;,even though other: worshipers be also present::;).. © 6. tee Among the company he discovers the: baron, whose? * high connection with the ruling dynasty in Russia gives. him almost carte blanche concerning the few little social ‘ functions which her majesty’s officers stationed, in: Bom=- bay might think of carrying out in'such a time of ‘disas-- ter. | ~ nah Ly The baron is at home, by long odds the most iHustrious" man in the room, and his resplendent. uniform adds -to:: the-oceasion, for he has believed it incumbent. upon: ‘his: dignity to come i: full-dress, as befits one. ‘who, bas} . ~