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When he inquired of Euricius touching men of exceptional strength, there was nothing remarkable in this, that they pointed out Ursus.
"Master Ursus," cried the innkeeper, "come; their honours desire to speak to you." Master Nicless, in his endeavour to soften matters down, let slip, although he would gladly have omitted, this plural, "their honours" respectful to the group, but mortifying, perhaps, to the chief, confounded therein, to some degree, with his subordinates.
After a time he conceived a liking for Ursus, with whom he conversed entire days; for with him he could talk about Lygia. The giant, on his part, was inexhaustible in narrative, and while performing the most simple services for the sick man, he began to show him also some attachment.
Altogether, when Winifred Child happened to think of Mrs. Belmont's building with the great figure of a woman falling down the front of it, she would have liked the statue to drop to earth with a crash. Once in a while, contriving to pass near, Ursus tried to whisper a word of encouragement: "You're a Wonderchild, you are! Say, it don't spoil your looks bein' tired.
In "Chaos Vanquished," the word monstruo, addressed to Gwynplaine, displeased Dea. Sometimes, with the smattering of Spanish which every one knew at the period, she took it into her head to replace it by quiero, which signifies, "I wish it." Ursus tolerated, although not without an expression of impatience, this alteration in his text.
Ursus had come in a hurry, his client's twenty dollars in hand, and had taken away the box that contained the doll. There had not even been time to ask if the man who had bought it looked kind and rich; but Win was too thankful to have been saved from her "scrape" with Logan to care passionately, after all, for Little Sister's fate.
So many were led out that all the dungeons must be empty, as it seemed. In the rear of the line Vinicius saw Glaucus the physician distinctly, but Lygia and Ursus were not among the condemned. DARKNESS had not come when the first waves of people began to flow into Cæsar's gardens.
On leaving the prison, the procession turned their backs on Ursus, went to the right, into the bend of the street opposite to that in which he was posted. A second torch shone under the gateway, announcing the end of the procession. Ursus was now about to see what they were bringing with them. The prisoner the man. Ursus was soon, he thought, to see Gwynplaine. That which they carried appeared.
Of these, two varieties are said to exist, one of which, specified by the name ursus sibiricus, is also found in Lapland and Siberia." "Go on, brother! Where next?" "From Kamschatka we shall make a long traverse to the south-west. Our best hunting-ground will be Borneo." "Ah! the beautiful little bear with the orange-coloured breast!" "But there is another Bruang?"
Ursus smiled a haughty smile. "Innkeeper, tell the proprietor of the circus that Gwynplaine is coming back." The innkeeper took something from a chair in the darkness, and turning towards Ursus with both arms raised, dangled from one hand a cloak, and from the other a leather esclavine, a felt hat, and a jacket.
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