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He waxed discursive
on the subject; said that the lady's face reminded him of the rainbow
in a certain picture by a local genius; avowed that there were moments
when even a doctor's hard life had its compensations, and that this was
one of them.
His enthusiasm carried the audience off their feet. It converted the
sternest preachers into artists. They forgot to talk about moral
lessons. All congratulated the good Aesculapius on his choice of the
medical profession as a career and his luck in beholding a spectacle
such as this; especially when he added, with glowing eloquence, that it
was astonishing how so small an insect, a mere mosquito, should be able
to produce an eruption of this magnitude and in colours, moreover,
which would have made Titian or Peter Paul Rubens burst with envy.



CHAPTER XVII


Decidedly, things were happening, as Mr. Heard would have said.
Strange to say that gentleman himself was probably the only person on
Nepenthe who still remained in ignorance of all these praeternatural
occurrences.


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