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'She took on so at your going away that she was obliged to console herself with a husband. She's now Mrs. John Quin. 'Mrs. John Quin! Was there ANOTHER Mr. John Quin? asked I, quite wonder-stricken. 'No; the very same one, my boy. He recovered from his wound. The ball you hit him with was not likely to hurt him. It was only made of tow.
It runs from one surface of the earth to the antipodal surface. It is diametric. But where is the antipodal spot? You stand upon it. I learned this by the merest chance. I was deep-digging in Mrs. Grimler's cellar, to bury a poor cat I had sacrificed in a galvanic experiment, when the earth under my spade crumbled, caved in, and wonder-stricken I stood upon the brink of a yawning shaft.
They look still more wonder-stricken, and half-inclined to think me some supernatural being, as, without dismounting, I ride beneath the gaudily colored archway and down the suburban streets.
I may add, the weather continued unusually cold this Souk. People had not had such cold for many a year. Received a visit from the Sheikh Jabour, who expressed himself uncommonly friendly, and said, "If anything unpleasant occurs, call for me." I showed him some cuts of a book, in which were drawings of Moors. He was wonder-stricken.
In spirit he was roaming the bank of old Father Thames where the river sweeps eastward below Limehouse Causeway wonder-stricken before the magic of the one-eyed wizard who could at will efface himself as an artist rubs out a drawing, who could camouflage a drug warehouse so successfully that human skill, however closely addressed to the task, failed utterly to detect its whereabouts.
A little lad of seven was I at the time, and well do I remember the martial stir and bustle there was about our citadel of Mondolfo, the armed multitudes that thronged the fortress that was our home, or drilled and manoeuvred upon the green plains beyond the river. I was all wonder-stricken and fascinated by the sight.
As, in an instant afterwards, he stood with the still living and breathing child within his grasp, upon the marble flagstones by the side of the Marchesa, his cloak, heavy with the drenching water, became unfastened, and, falling in folds about his feet, discovered to the wonder-stricken spectators the graceful person of a very young man, with the sound of whose name the greater part of Europe was then ringing.
Julian's rude hand had already thrust aside the lifeless, yielding head, and clutched the will: the father and mother though humbled and wonder-stricken at his daring gathered round him; and he read aloud, boldly and steadily to the end, though with scowling brow, and many curses interjectional: "IN the name of God, Amen. I, Constance Green, make this my last will and testament.
"I cannot read," he replied; but suddenly bethinking himself that he was implicated by the written evidence, he quickly changed his mind, and eagerly snatching the document from the baron, he hastened out of the room and turned the lock sharply upon the wonder-stricken knights.
Julian's rude hand had already thrust aside the lifeless, yielding head, and clutched the will: the father and mother though humbled and wonder-stricken at his daring gathered round him; and he read aloud, boldly and steadily to the end, though with scowling brow, and many curses interjectional: "In the name of God, Amen. I, Constance Green, make this my last will and testament.
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