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Will this letter be delivered to you by the post or by the writer in person? Chi sa?... You will like to have a complete record of my experiences during my long absence. I am now again at sea, and I cannot say how this fact rejoices me. I was tired of Ceylon; and my longing to get home increases as the prospect of my doing so becomes more real. I was ill, too, at Ceylon.
These thoughts darted in wild confusion in a few moments through her burning brain, and while Maurice swung her around it seemed as if the music reached her through the roar and thunder of breakers. The words "Chi la gagliarda vuol imparare" constantly echoed in her ears, mocking, reckless, urging her to retaliation.
They had just had a visit from Chang, who told them not to expect him the next day, as he must go and fetch the mule in the evening. He and Chi Fu would certainly be there the next night, he said, and he cautioned the children to close the window after they had climbed through. Little Yi was almost asleep, and was swaying to and fro as she sat on the bench.
Compare the proverb, 'Chi disse parlamento disse guastamento.
'We shall follow you to Peking or wherever Hung Li takes you, and then go at once and tell the English gentleman where you are. You have no need to fear now, turning to Nelly, 'that you will not get home. 'And can't An Ching come with us? 'I dare not take her, said Chang, 'but perhaps your father can arrange something. Now I will go and ask Chi Fu what we had best do.
It'll work it always does and I know that I can do it!" In her relief she laughed, a queer, cackling laugh which came strangely from the lips of a woman barely thirty. The laughter was still on her lips when a sound reached her ears which killed it as quickly as it came. Addio mia bella Napoli, addio, addio! La tua soave imagine chi mai, chi mai scordar potra!
If, however, in the dispute the wife had killed her husband, or by her conduct had driven him to suicide, she would be inexorably tied to the cross and put to death by the "Ling chi," or "degrading and slow process."
They don't resemble, besides, the ballads encountered in the 'Hsi Hsiang Chi, and 'Mou Tan T'ing, to justify us to fear that we might be setting eyes upon some corrupt text. They are quite harmless; so we'd better keep them!" Pao-ch'ai, after these arguments, dropped at length all discussion. They thereupon tried for a time to guess the stanzas.
Virgie furnished these simply, though prettily, and, when all was completed, really felt quite at home, and as if she had at last found a haven of safety. There was a small parlor and bedroom for her own use, a tiny kitchen, with a good-sized closet opening out of it, which was allotted exclusively to Chi Lu.
A roar of a thousand voices was heard singing the national hymn: "Chi per la patria muore Vessuto ha assai!" La Luciola was carried in triumph to her coach by the students; the enthusiastic young men took the horses out of the traces and bore the carriage along themselves, shouting through the night air: "Long live La Luciola! Long live Italy!"
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