Her build was that of a Dutch
fisher-woman. The set of her head on her muscular neck showed her to
be a woman of immense strength. But still more was her great physical
power indicated by her hands, the fingers of which seemed to have a
grip like that of an eagle's claws.
I then perceived upon an easel a large drawing. 'I have not seen
Wilderspin's "Faith and Love,"' I said; 'but this, I see, must be a
caricature of it.'
In it the woman figured as Isis, grinning beneath a veil held over
her head by two fantastically-dressed figures--one having the face of
Darwin, the other the face of Wilderspin.
'Allow me,' said Cyril, 'to introduce you to the Goddess Yoka, the
true Isis or goddess of bohemianism and universal joke, who, when she
had the chance of I making a rational and common-sense universe,
preferred amusing herself with flamingoes, dromedaries, ring-taile
monkeys, and men.'
'Pardon me,' I said; 'I merely called to see you. Good afternoon.'
'Allow me,' said he, turning to the woman, 'to introduce to your
celestial majesty Mr.
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