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Hilda Wade

CHAPTER X
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We MUST go somewhere.

This is maddening, maddening! Miss Wade--Dr.Cumberledge--I count upon you to discover SOMETHING for me to do.

If I vegetate like this, seeing nothing all day long but those eternal hills"-- she clenched her little fist--"I shall go MAD with ennui." Hilda had a happy thought.

"I have a fancy to see some of these Buddhist monasteries," she said, smiling as one smiles at a tiresome child whom one likes in spite of everything.

"You remember, I was reading that book of Mr.Simpson's on the steamer--coming out--a curious book about the Buddhist Praying Wheels; and it made me want to see one of their temples immensely.


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