Your gaze was fixed upon something before you, and you were utterly lost to the rest of the world.

You could not have known if Stanley pawed the moss and I laughed.

So, you see, you are mistaken.

As a matter of fact, I utterly deny that Stanley pawed the moss or that I laughed, or that any ants appeared at the falls at all." "I have always said that you should have been a Chinese soldier of fortune," she observed musingly.

"Your daring and ingenuity would be prized by the Chinese." "There are innumerable tobacco jars in China," he said, measuring the advantages.