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Updated: May 5, 2025
"I suppose it means that Gunderson is with you." "But how can that be?" "Were you at Mrs. Gorson's party?" "No." "Jean was there, though." "Yes." "So was Mrs. Gunderson." The man's face was a study worth the scrutiny. For a moment or two he uttered no word. The whole measurement of it was dawning on him. "The little rhinoceros-bird!" he said, softly.
Well for him is it on such occasions that he has a friend, a guardian, a tiny lover. Well for him that the rhinoceros-bird exists! The rhinoceros-bird is a little thing which never deserts the mighty beast. It perches upon his head or back, and flutters about him, and makes of him its world. To the rhinoceros-bird the rhinoceros is all there is of earth.
But that was only the beginning of a practical exhibition of the woman's earnestness and acuteness, and her great love. It was but evidence that she was to be, what she became in time, his rhinoceros-bird in all things, his right hand, prompter in such relations as a woman's wit and woman's way best serve. She was of him.
He said nothing for a moment, and then uttered only these words softly: "My little rhinoceros-bird." "Will you kindly explain the meaning of that extraordinary phrase?" He did not answer just then, but got into the cab with her and directed the driver to her home. She had removed her wraps in the drawing-room when she turned to him and demanded further information as to the term applied to her.
And such, dear pupil, is the rhinoceros-bird. And you are my rhinoceros-bird." She understood, of course. The look in her eyes told that, but her words belied her. She said that, in a general way, the simile had application, the rhinoceros being a huge beast of uncouth appearance. And, so far as this conversation was concerned, he perished miserably.
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