I grew hot at his boldness. There seemed to be something disr

he woman, twitching and vibrating. Her heavy,

persisted the

once,

it as an aside, ha

ver spok

himself with a deliberate and obvious effo

ow that every other person there wanted, to say, "Look out! Don't go too far." The child, however, see

She held the infant as if it were some priceless piece of earthenware, not nursi

old i

awaiting t

nd nine m

poken before tha

e apprehension it was a feeling that we all shared. But the rubicund man was magnificent, though, like the lion tamer of my youthf

he woman's lack of comprehension, he translated the qu

you had a do

was slacke

yes,

at do t

l in the eyes. Never in the face of any man or woman have

s at a great lion that lolled, finely indifferent, on the floor of its playground. Closer crept the urchin; he grew splendidly bol

hrieking face now, as the rubicund m

rned and looked at me with a cynical smile. I was, as it were, taken into its confidence

up in Great Hit

on carefully into her arms, and the rubic

," she said, a

ew a deep breath of relief with him in concert, as though we h