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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!
The fact is, that the daubs of paint on the canvas represented one thing as well as another, and the clown could call them whatever he pleased. "Picture No. 2!" he cried, after a flourish of music. "This old lady, seated before a mirror tearing out her hair especially the gray ones you have seen before; do you recognize her? No, you do not. She is the fair mandarine of the first picture.
The whip, and the cudgel, are held up to all orders of men; they are at once employed, and they are dreaded, by every magistrate. A mandarine is whipped, for having ordered a pickpocket to receive too few or too many blows.
The entire length of the Route Mandarine may now be traversed by auto-bus an excellent way to see the country provided you are inured to fatigue, do not mind the heat, and are not over-particular as to your fellow passengers. A motor car is, of course, more comfortable and more expensive; a small one can be rented for ninety dollars a day.
He saw that his circle of listeners was increased by the presence of the doge, M. de Clameran. "The third picture," he said, after a roll of drums, "depicts the old mandarine after she has dismissed that most annoying of guests remorse from her bosom. She promises herself that interest shall supply the place of love in chaining the too seductive youth to her side.
The Route Mandarine, beginning at Saigon, hugs the shores of the China Sea and, after traversing twelve hundred miles of jungle, forest and mountain land in Annam and Tongking, comes to an end at Hanoi, the capital of Indo-China.
The culprit, after the mandarin has given the signal for punishment, is seized and stretched out with his belly flat on the ground, his breeches are pulled down to his heels, and on the mandarine throwing down a stick, of which he has a number by him, one of the officers in attendance uses the pan-tsee, and gives him five severe blows, which are succeeded by several others till the number is complete.
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."
While receiving our cargo on board, a Chinaman belonging to one of the craft, stole a box of tea, but, by the exertion of our officers, the culprit was taken and immediately sent on shore to Dane's Island to the mandarine. He was found guilty of the crime, and his punishment three dozen blows with the bastinado.
Once she made an attempt to rise from her chair; but it seemed as if her strength failed her, and she sank back, forced to listen to the end. "Finally, ladies and gentlemen," continued the clown, "the richly stored jewel-cases became empty. The day came when the mandarine had nothing more to give.
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