She will take a pair of tiger's ears that nearly cost you your life, and she would rather die than accept the bit of silver in which you enclose them, without the 'permission of her uncle.'" "I do not care," he said, "so long as she keeps the ears.

But unless I am much mistaken, she will keep the box too.

She is not like other Englishwomen in the least." I was not sure of that.

We had some tea in the door of our tent, and Isaacs seemed hungry and thirsty, as well he might be.

Now that he was refreshed by bathing and the offices of the camp barber, he looked much as usual, save that the extreme paleness I had noticed when he came in had given place to a faint flush beneath the olive, probably due to his excitement, the danger being past.