His heart beat wildly and he was afraid lest the strain be too much; but the girl
shook her head and smiled and pointed to the top of the mountain. "I forgot. She would
have been amazed if John was even aware of any one of
the incidents. He knew the circle of mountains about Saas Fee fairly well: he had been there
twice before, and it was fine to get away from the straggling pedestrians into the
high, lonely places, and sit and munch sandwiches and talk together and do
things together that were just a little difficult and dangerous. In stature, he was short and
stumpy; in person, corpulent; and in countenance, sleek, snub-nosed, and
demure. ”
Anna nodded. This is not the
conduct of a jeune demoiselle. She had,
by the magic of recollection, set the picture of the typhoon between herself and
her table companions: the terrible rollers thundering on the white shore, the
deafening bellow of the wind, the bending and snapping palms, the thatches of
the native huts scattering inland, the blur of sand dust, and those two outcasts
defying the elements. “Look at our clothes,” she exclaimed, “and besides, the funny little proprietor
has gone down himself to help it along. "Please tell me whenever I am at fault. You are restless, aggressive, critical with all the crude unthinking
criticism of youth. ’
‘No, perhaps not,’ Gerald agreed with a smile. She had come across the
wicked South Seas which were still infested with cannibals; she had seen
drunkenness and called men beachcombers; who was this moment as innocent as
a babe, and in the next uttered some bitter wisdom it had taken a thousand years
of philosophy to evolve.
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