[The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Henry Kingsley]@TWC D-Link bookThe Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn CHAPTER XLV 1/23
CHAPTER XLV. IN WHICH THERE ARE SOME ASTONISHING REVELATIONS WITH REGARD TO DR. MULHAUS AND CAPTAIN DESBOROUGH. At ten o'clock the next morning arrived the Major, the Doctor, and Halbert; and the first notice they had of it was the Doctor's voice in the passage, evidently in a great state of excitement. "No more the common bower-bird than you, sir; a new species.
His eyes are red instead of blue, and the whole plumage is lighter.
I will call it after you, my dear Major." "You have got to shoot him first," said the Major. "I'll soon do that," said the Doctor, bursting into the room-door.
"How do you do, all of you? Sam, glad to see you back again.
Brentwood, you are welcome to your own house.
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