Given in Marriage

Excerpt: I say, did you hear old pensioner Jones, jawing away to Haji Aboo about the gold reefs, that lie round Tappah? An eager young planter put this question to his companion, as together they?or rather their horses?toiled up a sharp ascent. Oh yes, I heard him, grunted the other with a shrug. And what did you think, Ted? That the old boy was drunk as usual, was the uncompromising rejoinder. Fi...