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One would think you had swallowed a hearse and had not digested the trappings " To all of which Berselius bowed. "You are just the same as ever," said he. The woman flushed under her rouge, for there was something in Berselius's tone that made the simple words an insult.
"Passing him in the street one might take him for a very ordinary person. Meeting him for the first time, he looks all good nature; that smile " "Always," said Stenhouse. "Beware of a man with a perpetual smile on his face." "Yes, I know that, but this smile of Berselius's is not worn as a cloak.
Scarcely had the birds given warning than the bull heaved himself up. Berselius's rifle rang out, but the light was uncertain, and the brute wounded, but not mortally, charged forward took a half circle, swung his head from side to side in search of his assailant, and sighted the cow. Instantly, horn down and squealing, he charged her.
They sighted a small herd of giraffe two days later, but so far off as to be beyond pursuit; but before evening, just as they were about to camp by some pools, they came across rhino. Berselius's quick eye spotted the beasts, a bull and a cow.
They only carried what was barely needful, and was even less than needful, to take them to Fort M'Bassa, ten days, journey in Berselius's condition. Four water bottles that had been left intact they filled with water; they took the tent, and the pole that Félix had spliced. Cassava cakes and tinned meat and a few pounds of chocolate made up the provisions.
He had been apprised a month before of the coming of Berselius's expedition, and one might imagine the servility which this man would show to the all-powerful Berselius, whose hunting expeditions were red-carpeted, who was hail-fellow-well-met with Leopold, who, by lifting his finger, could cause Andreas Meeus to be dismissed from his post, and by crooking his finger cause him to be raised to a Commissionership.
Thus the great track of the herd lay before the hunters, but not a sign in all the sunlit, silent country before them of the herd itself. It was Berselius's aim to crowd up his men as quickly as a forced march could do it, camp and then pursue the herd with a few swift followers, the barest possible amount of stores and one tent.
"Do what you will," said he. "If you need money my funds are at your disposal, but you cannot destroy the past." Adams, who knew nothing of Berselius's dream-obsession, could not understand the full meaning of these words. But he had received permission to act, and the promise of that financial support without which individual action would be of no avail.
He was breathing evenly and rhythmically, sleeping, apparently, as peacefully as a child. She was about to turn away when, like a bather who has ventured into some peaceful tropic rock pool wherein lurks an octopus, she found herself seized and held. Berselius's eyes were open, he was not asleep.
Berselius's case was a phase of this condition. He knew his name everything lay before his mind up to a certain point. Beyond that, he knew all sorts of things were lying, but he could not see them. To use his own eloquent expression, he had lost the sight of memory. If you recall your past, it comes in pictures. You have to ransack a great photographic gallery. Before you can think, you must see.
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