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One of them carried a "bina," a second an ordinary school-slate covered with crude cabalistic signs and a third a rude book, something like a Vani's "chopda," filled with Marathi characters, which doubtless plays a part in the fortune-telling and spirit-scaring that form the stock-in-trade of these wandering hierophants. Hardly had they disappeared than four Sadhus hove in sight.
I thought about you those times, Bina how we recited together in geography; and I was the one that went and you were the one to stay at home. But near as I can make out, you've carried the world on your shoulders down here, while I've tried to do the same thing somewhere else and not so well, Bina not so well." Her sweet face clouded. She was jealous of even a hint of failure for him.
It gave him his boyhood's mien. "I'll tell you what, Bina," he said, "in that first rough-and-tumble before I made my way, you did me a lot of good." Sabrina lay and looked at him. Even her eyes had a still solemnity. "You wrote me a little note." More color surged into her face, but she did not stir. "I was pretty ambitious then," he went on musingly. "My wife was ambitious, too.
They stood upon a vast plain that sloped upwards gradually till it ended at the foot of a mighty range of snow-capped mountains named, as they learned in after-days, the Bina Mountains.
On the authority of Sulerman, an intelligent Meri man, I am told that the tree below the town is the real upas, called by the Meri men tajim the Borneons call it upas. There is another creeper, likewise called bina, the leaves of which are steeped and mixed with the upas, instead of the stem of the first sort. "August 8th. Off Ujong Sapo, at the entrance of Borneo river.
The government ought to investigate. And oh yes, a war vessel's in the group, the Cambrian. She burned three villages at Bina on account of the Minota, you know and shelled the bush. Then she went to Sio to straighten out things there." The conversation became general, and just before Young left to go on board Joan asked, "How can you manage all alone, Mr. Young?"
I thought of you down here in your garden, and well, I don't know, Bina. I showed that note to my wife, and she said, 'Bina must be a dear." Sabrina's eyes questioned him. "Yes," he said frankly. "She's a dear, too only different. It's been all right, Bina." "Ain't that good!" she whispered happily. "I'm glad."
The cabinet connecting these two cells has a Latin legend, to say that Religion here dwells near the temple of the liberal arts: Bina vides parvo discrimine juncta sacella, Altera pars Musis altera sacra Deo est. On the floor above, corresponding in position to this apartment, is a second, of even greater interest, since it was arranged by the Duke Frederick for his own retreat.
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