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That smile, she felt, trailed like a flippant and fluttering tail to the kite of his racial solemnity and stubbornness of purpose, enabling it to rise higher even while seeming to weigh it down. "And you always travel alone?" he finally asked, shaking off the last of his reserve. "Oh, I'm a bit of a globe-trotter that's what you'd call me on your side of the ocean, isn't it?
A pale anxious youth stepping softly on long legs was being chaffed by a strutting and rubicund globe-trotter about his purchases in the bazaar. "No, really do you think I've been done to that extent?" he inquired very earnest and deliberate.
"I've seen plenty of his sort, worse luck; he'll be borrowing fivers after the first week. I'll put him on to you fellows." The globe-trotter smiled a sickly smile, and changed the subject. "What's old Grant like the man he's going to? Squatter man, I suppose?"
Personally, it is a delight to me to visit a place untrodden by the jaded globe-trotter, for I am one myself; but whether it is laziness that prevents Santa Fe blowing its own horn, or the old exclusive air bequeathed to it by the grand dons of Spain that is averse to sounding the brass band, I love the appealing, picturesque, inert laziness of it all; but I love better to ask: "Why go to Egypt, when you have the wonders of an Egypt unexplored in your own land?
"Perhaps she isn't as used to the duck-pond as you are." The girl brushed a lock of vivid gold hair from her eyes; then she sat up, to add emphasis to her words. "Miss Arthur has been to America and back seven times and to Australia once," she said conclusively. "As globe-trotter, or as commercial traveller?" "Neither. As professional chaperon.
He is a globe-trotter by birth, a gentleman by predilection, a millionaire by the mercy of Heaven, and a connoisseur of precious stones by occupation. The reporter was admitted promptly when he made himself known at the General's residence at about eight thirty on the evening that he received the assignment.
It is not surprising, therefore, that the average globe-trotter finds a week of Batavia about enough at a time. He confides his emotions to his friend, who is a resident. This latter says, "Can't sleep? You should go to Buitenzorg; you'll sleep all night there."
There is also a small importation of American fur to be dressed and treated and re-despatched to the Siberian fur dealers from whom the American globe-trotter prefers to buy. A number of unhealthy work-people men, women, and ancient children also use this door, entering by it in the morning, and only coming into the air again after dark. They have yellow faces and dusty clothes.
A man of forty-five perhaps, clean-shaven, well set up, an inveterate globe-trotter, a prince among raconteurs, and the most astounding polyglot I have ever met. I myself have heard him talk Eskimo with one of Peary's natives, and he had collated some of his researches into Iranic-Turanian root-forms for the Philological Society. But let us go back to our walnuts. "Crawfurd picked up the thread.
I'm told he's a bit of a globe-trotter, sportsman, and so on. All he has to do is to knock up a book of travels, and it'll go like wildfire. Alma had pulled to pieces a tassel on her chair. 'What has all this to do with me? she asked abruptly. 'I'm coming to that. You don't know anything about Mrs. Strangeways either? Well, there may be a doubt about Mrs. Carnaby, but there's none about Mrs.
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