13/18 He is come with me to--" It was then and not until then that his lordship turned his stare from the sea to the clerk and his companion. Would you be good enough to tell us how we are to reach the--er--chateau, and why the devil we can't get anybody to move our luggage ?" Mr.Bowles, who had lived in Japat for sixteen years, was a tortuously slow Englishman with the curse of the clime still growing upon him. He was half asleep quite a good bit of the time, and wholly asleep during the remainder. A middle-aged man was he, yet he looked sixty. He afterward told Saunders that it seemed to take two days to make one in the beastly climate; that was why he was misled into putting off everything until the second day. |