"Tell me whence cameth the nuts, Cunora!" he
begged; but the girl pretended to be cross, and shut her mouth as
firmly as its contents would allow.
Next moment there was a shout from the thicket, together with a
crashing sound; and shortly the fourth Sanusian appeared. He was by
far the larger; but his size was a matter of width rather than of
height. An artist would have picked him as a model for Ajax himself.
His muscles fairly strained the huge lion's skin in which he was
clad, and he had twice the weight of Dulnop within the same height.
Also, to the doctor's eye, he was nearer Rolla's age.
His face was strong and handsome in a somewhat fierce, relentless
way; his complexion darker than the rest. He carried a huge club,
such as must have weighed all of forty pounds, while his belt was
jammed full of stone weapons. The doctor classed him and the younger
girl together because of their vigor and independence, while Dulnop
and Rolla seemed to have dispositions very similar in their
comparative gentleness and restraint.
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