The bungalows and stores were built of heavy bamboo and gum-wood; sprawly,
one-storied affairs; for the typhoon was no stranger in these waters. What other reason could there
be? It’s more complex, but it’s better. And a custom had grown up of a general tea at four o’clock,
under the auspices of a Miss Garvice, a tall and graceful girl of distinguished
intellectual incompetence, in whom the hostess instinct seemed to be abnormally
developed. Sheppard's dress—extremely
neat and clean, but simply fashioned, and of the plainest and most unpretending
material,—offered nothing assailable; and her demeanour was so humble, and
her looks so modest, that—if she had been ill-looking—she might, possibly,
have escaped the shafts of malice preparing to be levelled against her. "She tells me there was a Kanaka cook; been in the family as long as she can
remember. The little matter of an accent may be misleading, I grant you, but
—’
He was interrupted, and with impatience. Perhaps
Sir John is going to take the other one under his wing.
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