My father was one of the bravest men in the world, and a hundred times I have seen him show horror at sight of a spider.

If you were afraid of snakes, why did you go up the Gampola, in Ceylon ?" "I didn't know the snakes were there," he chuckled.

"I hadn't dreamed there were a half so many snakes in the whole world as there were along that confounded river.

I slept sitting up, dressed in rubber wading boots that came to my waist, and wore thick leather gloves.

I got out of the country at the earliest possible moment." When they entered the edge of the Miette clearing and saw the glow of lights ahead of them, Aldous caught the sudden upturn of his companion's face, laughing at him in the starlight.
"Kind, thoughtful John Aldous!" she whispered, as if to herself.