They seemed almost to adore the child, but he was never first with either of them.

He but bound the two more closely together, and the looks of the man were sometimes almost worshipful as he looked upon the mother of his child.

And she--she understood, and they were glad together.

Their kingdom had been but enlarged.
It is not to be supposed that this whimsical couple--for they were really whimsical, these friends of mine, as must have appeared often in my account could rear a child without grotesqueries.

The woman, I am afraid, was, before she became a mother, addicted to monkey tricks, even to the extent of bounding leopard-like upon the man from unexpected places, and the Ape was, in his early days, bred in a way barbaric.