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"A kiss is nothing, Manella!" he said--"We kiss children as I kiss you! You are a child,--a child-woman Physically you are a Juno,--row up,--and you will be glad I did no o hoently away froly to his face, he laughed

"Upona nice fool of o home! If you are wise you won't stop here another minute! See now! You are full of curiosity--all women are! You want to knohy I stay up here in this hill cabin byat the 'Plaza' You think I'lishman is ever rich,--not up to his own desires He wants the earth and all that therein is--does the Englishes Aetting that he could have had it hie anybody anything--America is welcome to the whole bulk as far as I'm concerned--Britain ditto,--let them both eat and be filled All I want is to be left alone Do you hear that, Manella? To be left alone! Particularly by women That's one reason why I came here This cabin is supposed to be a sort of tuberculosis 'shelter,' where a patient in hopeless condition comes with a special nurse to die I don't want a nurse, and I' to die Tubercles don't touch me--they don't flourish on my soil So this solitude just suits me If I were at the 'Plaza' I should have to meet a lot of women--"

"No, you wouldn't," interrupted Manella, suddenly and sharply--"only one wohed, and er"

He looked at her with a touch of inquisitiveness

"An invalid?"

"She esture of dislike

"Dreadful! That's enough! I can ih and a straw-coloured wig Yes!--that will do, Manella! You'd better go and wait upon her I've got all I want for a couple of days at least" He seated himself and took up his note-book She turned away