NOTICE.
In case it may be supposed that the African episode in this book was suggested by recent events in the Transvaal, I desire to state that it was written four years before the Jameson raid occurred.
Ouida.
THE MASSARENES.
CHAPTER I.
“Mouse,” said her husband to Lady Kenilworth, one morning at Homburg, “do you see that large pale woman over there, with a face like a crumpled whitey-brown paper bag?”
Lady Kenilworth looked.
“Yes,” she said, impatiently. “Yes. Well?—what?—why?”
“Well, she rolls—she absolutely rolls—wallows—biggest pile ever made out West.”