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It is not at Pekin that I hope to marry Miss Bluett!" "Where, then? At Sou Tcheou or Lan Tcheou, while we stop a few hours?" "Wait a bit, Monsieur Bombarnac! Can a Yankee wait?" "Then it is to be " "Here." "In the train?" "In the train." "Then it is for me to say, Wait a bit!" "Not twenty-four hours." "But to be married you require "
Miss Horatia Bluett represented an important firm in London, Messrs. Holmes-Holme, to whom the Celestial Empire annually exports two millions of female heads of hair. She was going to Pekin on account of the said firm, to open an office as a center for the collection of the Chinese hair crop.
The Reverend Nathaniel Morse, in announcing that the marriage will take place at nine o'clock, presents the compliments of Mr. Ephrinell and Miss Bluett. Major Noltitz and I, Caterna and Pan-Chao are under arms at the time stated. Caterna did not think it his duty to resume his costume, nor did his wife.
But then Ephrinell and Miss Bluett are all the time absorbed in their commercial tête-
Be assured it does not announce an accident. Its joyous tinkling calls us to the dining car, and we march in procession toward the place of sacrifice. Ephrinell and Miss Bluett are already seated at the little table in front of the worthy clergyman, and we take our places around them. On the platforms are grouped the spectators, anxious to lose nothing of the nuptial ceremony.
"And do they only speak Chinese?" "Probably; I have not heard them speak any other language together." On this information from Popof, I will keep to the number nine I have given to young Pan-Chao, and to the ten with which I have labelled Doctor Tio-King. "The American," began Popof. "Ephrinell?" I exclaimed, "and Miss Horatia Bluett, the Englishwoman? Oh!
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