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In 1828, the number of Chinese working the mines here was one thousand; and in the same year they were massacred by the Malays. They now number ten thousand, and under British protection have nothing to fear. It is still the New Year holidays, and hundreds of Chinamen were lounging about, and every house was gayly decorated.
Andras and Marsa were left almost alone; Varhely still remaining, and the little Baroness, who ran up, all rosy and out of breath, to the Prince, and said, gayly, in her laughing voice: "Well! What do you say to that? all vanished like smoke, even Jacquemin, who has gone back by train. The game of descampativos, which Marie Antoinette loved to play at Trianon, must have been a little like this.
The boat danced on the waves that sportively splashed over its edge; it scarcely moved forward on the dark sea; which frolicked more and more gayly. The two men were dreaming, rocked on the water, and pensively looking around them. Chelkash had turned Gavrilo's thoughts to his village with the aim of encouraging and reassuring him.
In front of the house the well-bucket, hanging high upon the sweep, seemed dropping gold into the depths beneath. On the porch, upon a table scrubbed "white as the driven snow," were set the bright tin pans ready to receive the evening's milk. Within the house the maids were singing gayly as they passed to and fro preparing a substantial supper for the farmer.
He dropped into a taller tree an apple near by while she, with her beak full of materials, alighted on the lowest branch of the plum, and hopped gayly from twig to twig, as though they were steps, up to the sky parlor where she had established her homestead. Then she went busily to work to adjust the new matter, while he waited patiently during the ten or fifteen minutes she thus occupied.
Crowds were on their way to the exhibition from all sides, women in spring frocks, many of the men in white waistcoats, one hand in pocket, gayly flourishing their canes with the other, as much as to say, "Look at me-well-to-do, jaunty, and out in fine weather." The turnstiles were crowded, but at last we got through.
"I've taken a great liberty," said she serenely, "for which I hope you'll all forgive me. I've tentatively promised Mr. Kendrick an invitation to the Christmas dance." There was a shout from Louis and Ted together. Ruth beamed with delight. Across the fireplace Roberta shot at her sister-in-law one rebellious glance. "I knew I had no right to do it," admitted Rosamond gayly.
They found themselves seated apart from the rest of the merry-makers, on the bank shadowed by lime-trees; the man listening with downcast eyes, the girl with mobile shifting glances, now on earth, now on heaven, and talking freely, gayly like the babble of a happy stream, with a silvery dulcet voice and a sparkle of rippling smiles.
Secretly a charitable man, honest in his financial dealings, he could keep in hiding, mind you! that which did not belong to him. It was beyond her understanding. An idea, which had been nebulous until this moment, sprang into being. "Father," she said, "you will do me a favour?" "What do you want a million? Run and get my check book!" he cried, gayly.
"From yonder mountains, an' then some," he answered with a sweeping gesture. "You rode down this morning?" "I rode down this morning. Down from the toppermost top of the divide with the wind singing in my whiskers an' the birds warbling in my ears." He laughed gayly, for he appreciated her puzzled look. "I was wondering two things," he continued solemnly.
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