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He waited stolidly for what he knew was coming. "Now," Dr. Ku murmured. He smiled at his two prisoners and pressed one of the switchboard's array of buttons. A door opposite them swung open. "Believe me, this is a pleasure," he said. Flanked by two impressive slant-eyed guards, a frail figure in a rubber apron stood revealed.
In quiet, padded shoes, the sallow-faced, almond-eyed throng shuffled by, us; here a man with a delicate lavender lining showing below his blue coat, there a slant-eyed woman with her sleek black hair rolled over a brilliant jade ornament, leading by the hand a little boy who looked as if he had stepped out of a picture book with his yellow trousers and pink coat.
There were Chinamen and Japs a dozen of the slant-eyed, yellow-faced Orientals the Chinamen all big, gaunt men with their queues coiled about their heads. There were Italians, the lower class known to the West as "Dagoes." And almost to the last man of them they were the hardest-faced men he had ever seen.
Maybe alle samee somebody sickee?" he continued, cheerfully confident that questions enough would ultimately bring a reply. He was rewarded: "What do you know about 'teleglams'? You slant-eyed burner of beef-steaks!" "Who's it from?" Charley asked. "Anybody we know " "My Gawd," Old Heck mourned once more, "she's comin'!" "Who's she?" Parker coaxed. "A female," Old Heck replied, "she's a female!"
Think you these things are but still to come? Think you they are but near at hand, Only now and here? Behold. They were the same in years of old!" In her plaintive interlude, the slant-eyed servants watched her, nodding and muttering under the camphor trees. "And here's a song of exile," she said. "I render it very badly." Rudolph had never seen her face like this, bending intently above the lute.
There were stark-odored fish-stalls in alleyways so narrow that the sun touched them rarely, barred upper-windows from which the faces of slant-eyed women peeped in eager wistfulness as if upon an unfamiliar world. Cellar doorways from which slipper-shod, pasty-faced Cantonese crept furtively at dawn; sentineled portals, which gave ingress to gambling houses protected by sheet-iron doors.
“Why, Pete, old fellow, what ails you?” Then meanly quoting his own words, I added, “They hain’t nothing but wolves!” There is not a shadow of a doubt that Pete expected the wolves to answer me with human voice, and I am willing to confess that, even to me, there seemed to be no other alternative for the slant-eyed bandits to pursue.
Whenever the magistrate, good Li Song Is short of his favorite tea, Oolong, He lays his gout and his spectacles down And hies him away into Chinatown. Into the region of Mon Lay Won, When the day of official life is done, Into the land of slant-eyed Lee's He hies him away to replenish his teas.
Some acting, if you ask me, seeing it wasn't acting at all." He sent one of his slant-eyed glances toward Jean, who bit her lips and looked away. "Lean forward a little, and hold that gun like you knew what it was made for, anyway!" He regarded Muriel glumly.
The effect was magical. Curiosity is one of the strongest of Oriental traits, and before long the gates creaked on their hinges and a crowd of slant-eyed, pig-tailed heads peered wonderingly out. The rest was easy, and I heard a great sigh of relief as I marshaled my little group into safety. Jack's many friends here in Peking are determined that I shall have as good a time as possible.
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