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The last member of the party to disembark was a girl of about…

Quote byEdgar Rice Burroughs · 1875–1950

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Ch. 13: His Own Kind.

English (original)

The last member of the party to disembark was a girl of about nineteen, and it was the young man who stood at the boat's prow to lift her high and dry upon land. She gave him a brave and pretty smile of thanks, but no words passed between them.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

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