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Updated: May 5, 2025
Other careless folk were maimed by the furious driving of the Nepentheans; it was a common form of accident. Miss Wilberforce the eye-sore, the scandal of her sex remained intact. Some impish deity seemed to guide her wayward footsteps. Had she been a person of low extraction there would have been no difficulty in dealing with her.
Trees, houses, the fertile fields, the mountain slopes all were smothered under a layer of monotonous pallor. They knew what it meant. It meant ruin to their crops and vineyards. None the less, they raised a shout, a half-hearted shout, of praise. For Nepentheans are born politicians and courteous by nature. It is their heritage from the Good Duke Alfred to "keep smiling."
It was that story, he expressly tells us, which inflamed him, a mere visitor to the place, with a desire to know more about the island. A people like the Nepentheans, who could cherish in their hearts a tale of such beauty, must be worthy, he concluded, "of the closest and most sympathetic scrutiny."
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