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She smiled sympathetically. "I understand," she said; "it is the toothache. It is very painful, while it lasts, but I have something that will stop it. Just shut your mouth and make yourself as comfortable as you can, and I will get it." But Mr. Baxter shook his head sadly. "I 'aw' 'uh' 'ih," he answered. Then Aunt Jane's courage began to fail. "Can't shut it! Oh, Solomon, Solomon! What is it?"
But I was speaking of my men delaying on the road to Kwang-tung-hsien, when they laughed at my impatience. "Ih dien mien, ih dien mien," shouted one, as he held out a huge blue bowl of white wormlike strings and a couple of chopsticks. "Mien," it should be said, is something like vermicelli.
The lying art among the Chinese. Difference of the West and East. Strange Chinese characteristic. Eastern and Western civilization, and how it is working. Remarks on the written character and Romanisation. Will China lose her national characteristics? "Ih dien mien, ih dien mien." A nasty experience of the impotently dumb. Rescued in the nick of time.
Her relation the cook sat alone with her upon the bed. "Withdraw not your hand from the innocent children," said Johanne Marie; "if they live to grow up, tell them some time that their mother was innocent. My eternal Saviour knows that I have never stolen! Innocent am I, and innocent was I when I went out a spectacle of public derision, and now when I sit here!" "Ih, Jesus though!
"Yes," said one of them, "better a little with honor, than much with dishonor. She is sentenced; to-morrow she is to go about in the pillory. That is sure and certain! "Ih, my Jesus!" exclaimed the other, and let her wooden beater fall, "is Johanne Marie to go in the pillory, the handsome girl? she that looked so clever and dressed herself so well?"
"Yes, it is a misfortune!" said the first; "a great misfortune it must be! No, let every one keep his own! say I every day to my children. After the sweet claw comes the bitter smart. One had much better work till the blood starts from the finger-ends." "Ih, see though!" said the other; "there goes the old fellow, Johanne Marie's father.
'What I say is, continued the stranger, putting him aside with his powerful arm, like a twig out of the path 'why didn't you sing again when we shouted bis? That's not much to ask. 'Einen Kuss, that's not much, came again from the ranks of his companions, 'Ih! der Stakramenter! cried one tipsy German, bursting with laughter.
Kumta ynda la-shái mynstep u la leit kái pat sha lum, te haba u la wan noh la jan miet u la shem ia ka iing jong u ba la sár la sumar bad ka ja ba la ih. Mynkata u la lyngngeh shibán ba ka long kumne. Te kum la-shái ka la long kumjuh. Ynda ka shu dem iailong kumne-pa-kumne la bán sín eh, ynda kumta u la leh ia lade kum u ban sa leit lúm, u da ting ia u ksew.
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