The Cantonese, excepting in the shops where he
expects profit, always resents the intrusion of the fan-quei—foreign devil. I will not be sent away. One point in her narrative stood out beyond all others. A young man turned to pay the cabman. ‘It is what my father intended. “Why won’t you sleep in my bed tonight, Lucia, where
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it’s warm?” He asked her one night, teasing but
mournful, as she stood in her bedroom doorway in a long
white gown. And the door was suddenly
thrown open, and the two janizaries felled to the ground by the strong arm of the
stalwart robber. But now that this bar is removed, I trust I may, without impropriety, urge it. It fell with a clatter to the floor. Sheppard's habitation terminated a row of old ruinous buildings, called
Wheeler's Rents; a dirty thoroughfare, part street, and part lane, running from
Mint Street, through a variety of turnings, and along the brink of a deep kennel,
skirted by a number of petty and neglected gardens in the direction of Saint
George's Fields. "
"It was her own fault," observed Blueskin, moodily.
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