In Search of an Unknown Race — page 196: what you’re looking at

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184 VLE, CHAPTER XXVIIL A SUDDEN CRASH. Van had no desire to be reserved or seem unsociable. But apart from his intention of keeping everything re- lating to Itambezi as much of a secret as possible, he was too much absorbed in pleasurable anticipations of the future to care much for the attention of strangers. He was looking forward to a possible meeting with Captain Peterson, his friend and benefactor. Flores, he felt sure, would never be found far from Miss Ninada, and he was pretty confident of confounding that youth- ful criminal and recovering his stolen diamonds—or a goodly portion of them. Lastly, the most cherished expectation ofall was that of appearing to Ninada literally as one from the dead. How joyful that meeting would be, Van hardly allowed himself to fancy. He was neither silly nor sentimental —much less was he in the slightest degree conceited. But he knew in his own heart, as well as though it had been spoken in so many words, that the young girl regarded him with a pure and abiding affection. And this was enough. The steamer Para was to touch at one or two ports in Dutch and French Guiana, as well as at Nassau, New (COAMIE NOOKS (E(0)