All that will interest you--with regard to our matter I mean of course, for the whole book is interesting as a record of travel in a country then quite unknown--is the preface, and two or three chapters which I shall mark for you." He shook hands warmly with Doctor Winchester who had stood up to go.
Whilst he was away I sat lonely, thinking.

As I thought, the world around me seemed to be illimitably great.

The only little spot in which I was interested seemed like a tiny speck in the midst of a wilderness.

Without and around it were darkness and unknown danger, pressing in from every side.

And the central figure in our little oasis was one of sweetness and beauty.