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Hitherto he had taken me on my own warrant, and Ben's, without a trace of suspicion: but henceforth I caught him eyeing me furtively from time to time, and overheard him muttering as he went about his preparations. As he had promised, when the time came for hauling up our small anchor, Mrs. Pengelly emerged from the companion hatch like a geni from a bottle.
But it had to yield, as the twentieth century approached and the millennium drew nigh; men not so very big boned either, but knowin' quite a lot, jest chained that great roarin' obstropulous Geni, and has made it do good work.
"It is a mile wide, and the fish in it are six yards long, and covered with spikes like porcupines." "How did you get across?" inquired Pei-Hang. "I? Oh, I can fly," said the Geni. "And I can jump," retorted Pei-Hang, sturdily.
I wanted dretfully to go and see the place where the cunning and wisdom of man has set a trap to ketch the power of that great liquid Geni, who has ruled it over his mighty watery kingdom sence the creation, and I spoze always calculated to; throwin' men about, and drawin' 'em down into its whirlpool jest like forest leaves or blades of grass.
He stood there while the Geni who had been his guide explained to the others why he had come, and told them about the wonderful red and white seeds he carried about with him. "We must let him have the pestle and mortar," he said, "or he won't give us our rivers back again."
"I imagine nothing!" he declared airily, "Everything is imagined for me nowadays, and imagination itself is like a flying Geni which overtakes and catches the hair of some elusive Reality and turns its face round, full-shining on an amazed world!" "A pretty simile!" said Angela Sovrani, smiling. "Is it not?
The literature and art of the past can never be dead. It's the flask where the geni of life is imprisoned; you've only to open it and the life is yours. And what life! That it's different from ours is just its merit. I don't mean that it's necessarily better; but it preserves for us the things we have dropped out. Because we, no more than the men of the past, exhaust all the possibilities.
Now it is said that a wicked Geni will not come near a Chinese boy if he has some red silk braided in with his pigtail, or if he wears a silver chain round his neck. And the most daring Geni has a great dread of old fishing-nets.
Pei-Hang, when he had finished staring at the Lake of Gems, walked round it, and wondered how he was to carry it down the mountain and across the plains to Chang-ngan. Then he sat down on the ground to think the matter over, and the Genii, even his own good-natured Geni, laughed at him again. "Come!" they said. "If you like to fill the mortar with precious stones, you may do it.
So for the last time the geni comes forth and spreads his rugs and carpets of white the last flowers of the year. "You will pass several ancient churches along the way. When the interior walls are scraped it is not uncommon to find frescoes by some forgotten master, generally in the nude.
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