Between his lectures—and primarily he was an itinerant lecturer—he manoeuvred in vain to acquire some facts regarding the girl, who she was, whence she had come; but always she countered with: "What is that?" Guileless she might be; simple, never. ’ ‘Ah, but why remain penniless? After all, your grandfather Charvill—’ ‘Again with the grandfather? Mon ami, if you imagine that this grandfather will welcome a daughter of Nicholas Charvill, whom he has never forgiven that he married a Frenchwoman, then you have an imagination entirely wrong. “I am going,” she said grimly, with three hairpins in her mouth. The world into which she was so boldly venturing was going to be wonderful, but never so wonderful as the world within these paper covers. Sit down, I command you. From the white beach the palms ran in serried rows quarter of a mile inland, then began a jungle of bamboo, gum-tree, sandalwood, plantain, huge fern, and choking grasses. And yet the secondary emotion was one of suspicion. ‘I know what it means, numbskull! Didn’t spend years in the confounded country without picking up some of their infernal tongue. CHAPTER XXVI Spurlock went out on his toes, careful lest the bamboo curtain rattle behind him.
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