The Birth of Venus

The Birth of Venus
Daisy had gone a little pale. The sinister, breathless atmosphere of the place was beginning to tell on her. She now began to understand that the shabby little objects lying there in the glass case close to her were each and all links in the chain of evidence which, in almost every case, had brought some guilty man or woman to the gallows.
The Birth of Venus
"We had a yellow gentleman here the other day," observed the guardian suddenly; "one of those Brahmins - so they calls themselves. Well, you'd a been quite surprised to see how that heathen took on! He 'declared - what was the word he used? " - he turned to Chandler.
The Birth of Venus