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Arms now united with Literature. General Tuan Chi-jui, immediately accepting the burden placed on him, proceeded to the main entrenched camp outside Tientsin and assumed command of the troops massed there, issuing at the same time the following manifesto: TUAN CHI-JUI'S MANIFESTO To Vice-President Feng Kuo-chang, Inspector General of Wumin, Tu Chuns, Governors, Tu-tungs....
That night there was much paddling in a canoe and walking at his master's heels for Tamb' Itam: up and down the street they tramped, where the fires were burning, inland on the outskirts of the town where small parties of men kept guard in the fields. Tuan Jim gave his orders and was obeyed. Last of all they went to the Rajah's stockade, which a detachment of Jim's people manned on that night.
Who are their leaders? How can they, a mere rabble, hope to vanquish the armies of foreign nations?" Prince Tuan answered that "by their incantations they were able to produce heaven-sent soldiers." Prince Su denounced such superstition as childish.
"Sou' by eas'," repeated the elderly Malay with grave earnestness. "Let me know when she begins to steer," added Lingard. "Ya, Tuan," answered the man, glancing rapidly at the sky. "Wind coming," he muttered. "I think so, too," whispered Lingard as if to himself. The shadows were gathering rapidly round the brig. A mulatto put his head out of the companion and called out: "Ready, sir."
From the day when the little prince had been deemed old enough to leave his mother and the women's palace until the day he had entered the native artillery as a lieutenant, he had been schooled and trained by the English missionaries and the Tuan Kadi, or Mohammedan high priest, as becomes a son of so illustrious a father.
We have heard about your ship and some rejoiced. Not I. Amongst the whites, who are devils, you are a man." "Trima kassi! I give you thanks," said Lingard, gravely. Babalatchi looked down with a bashful smile, but his face became saddened directly, and when he spoke again it was in a mournful tone. "Had you come a day sooner, Tuan, you would have seen an enemy die.
Willems nodded slightly and spoke after a while. "We know each other, Tuan Abdulla," he said, with an assumption of easy indifference. "We have traded together," answered Abdulla, solemnly, "but it was far from here." "And we may trade here also," said Willems. "The place does not matter. It is the open mind and the true heart that are required in business." "Very true.
There was a great flood, and this morning you found him in the river." "By his feet I dragged him out," muttered Mahmat under his breath. "Tuan Babalatchi, there will be a recompense!" he exclaimed aloud. Babalatchi held up the gold bangle before Mahmat's eyes. "What I have told you, Mahmat, is for all ears. What I give you now is for your eyes only. Take."
Another instance of the way in which the Empress Dowager played one party against another was the appointment of Prince Tuan as a member of the Foreign Office. After his son had been selected as the heir-apparent it seemed to the Empress Dowager that for his own education and development he should be made to come in contact with the foreigners.
Scarcely had the Malay seated himself before von Horn began questioning him in the rajah's native tongue, not a word of which was intelligible to Professor Maxon. Sing, however, was as familiar with it as was von Horn. "Where are the girl and the treasure?" he asked. "What girl, Tuan Besar?" inquired the wily Malay innocently. "And what treasure? The white man speaks in riddles."
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