title: Tarzan the Magnificent: (#21)
author:  Edgar Rice Burroughs 
description: 1981 7th Ballantine edition paperback. vg+ condition. In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.
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  # The Return of Tarzan
  
  ### Edgar Rice Burroughs
  
  **Chapter I. The Affair on the Liner**
  
  "Magnifique!" ejaculated the Countess de Coude, beneath her breath.
  
  "Eh?" questioned the count, turning toward his young wife. "What is it that is
  magnificent?" and the count bent his eyes in various directions in quest of
  the object of her admiration.
  
  "Oh, nothing at all, my dear," replied the countess, a slight flush
  momentarily coloring her already pink cheek. "I was but recalling with
  admiration those stupendous skyscrapers, as they call them, of New York," and
  the fair countess settled herself more comfortably in her steamer chair, and
  resumed the magazine which "nothing at all" had caused her to let fall upon
  her lap.
  
  Her husband again buried himself in his book, but not without a mild
  wonderment that three days out from New York his countess should suddenly have
  realized an admiration for the very buildings she had but recently
  characterized as horrid.
  
  Presently the count put dow