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The showman's shrill voice brought the banker's wife back to a sense of reality; she started, and looked quickly about her, as if suddenly awakened from a troubled dream. "Now, ladies, we are in China. The first picture on my canvas, here, in the left corner" here he touched the top daub "represents the celebrated Mandarin Li-Fo, in the bosom of his family.
This pretty woman leaning over him is his wife; and these children playing on the carpet are the bonds of love between this happy pair. Do you not inhale the odor of sanctity and happiness emanating from this speaking picture, gentlemen? "Mme. Li-Fo is the most virtuous of women, adoring her husband and idolizing her children.
But anyone who knew him would have seen his bright black eyes sparkling with malicious satisfaction. "Bless my heart!" he cried, as if speaking to himself. "This is the strangest thing I ever heard of! How can my drama of the Mandarine Li-Fo have any reference to Mme. Fauvel, whom I don't know from Adam or Eve? I can't think how the resemblance unless but no, that is impossible."
It was then that the young scoundrel conceived the project of carrying off the jasper button belonging to the Mandarin Li-Fo a splendid jewel of incalculable value, which, being the badge of his dignity, was kept in a granite chest, and guarded by three soldiers night and day. Ah! the mandarine resisted a long time!
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