no lustre. He treated Miss Denison as no parent ever treated a child, with a gallantry and a courtliness quite beautiful to watch, and not a little touching in the light of the circumstances under which they were travelling together. The girl had gone straight from school to her stepfather’s estate on the Zambesi, where, a few months later, her mother had died of the malaria. Unable to endure the place after his wife’s death,
no lustre. He treated Miss Denison as no parent ever treated a child, with a gallantry and a courtliness quite beautiful to watch, and not a little touching in the light of the circumstances under which they were travelling together. The girl had gone straight from school to her stepfather’s estate on the Zambesi, where, a few months later, her mother had died of the malaria. Unable to endure the place after his wife’s death,
