Capitolo 40
before in my life nobody that seen once satisfied or twice my brother,
and what he/she didn't take me for him or him for me, the very first one the time
he separately saw us. But then", he added, after a short break, with
a rapid dart of his/her eyes, "you are with him in the tunnel for a
long and whole day; and in that duration, you clearly saw a good quantity
of him."
Elma blushed again, and Guy noticed in to pass that she blushed
very beautifully.
"And as it is Sardanapalus?" she asked, in a rather hasty voice,
making an inartistic try to change the subject.
"Oh, Sardanapalus is correct entirely", Guy answered, while laughing. "Cyril
I dictate me you had made friends with him, and it were not afraid a pieces
of him. The most greater part of people they are so horribly frightened of the old poor man
creature."
"But he is not old", Elma exclaimed, while interrupting him/it with some
heat. "He is in the full luxuriance of the life. He is so shining and beautiful.
Me enough I fell in love me with him."
"And that Sardanapalus is?" Mrs. Clifford asked, with a vague maternal
sense of uneasiness and doubt. "A dog or a monkey?"
"Oh, Sardanapalus, mother--I didn't tell him around him? "Elma cried
enthusiastically. "Because, he is alone beautiful and beautiful. He is this way
a glorious green and yellow-united snake; and he wound around mine
you arm as if he had always known me."
Mrs. Clifford drew again with a horror-stricken face, while casting through
to his/her daughter the same clandestine kind of glance that she had given her
I marry the night after the adventure of Elma.
"A snake!" she repeated, petrified, "a snake! Oh, Elma! Because, You never
I dictate me that. And he wound round Your arm. As horrible!"
But Elma would not have put down from exclamations of horror.
"Because, you are not afraid of snakes You, you know, mother", her
succession, without fear. "I remember dad that says that when you are to
St. Kitts with him you never minded them some, but he/she took them in
Your hands like an Indian juggler, and you/he/she treated them as toys,