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At length Gordon persuaded his captors to allow him to send a messenger to summon his own bodyguard, and also an order to some of his other soldiers to seize Li Hung Chang, and not to let him go until the Wangs had safely returned to their own homes. On the way the messenger met some of Ching's soldiers, who wounded him and tore up Gordon's message.
In honour of Chia Ching's birthday, a family banquet is spread in the Ning Mansion. At the sight of Hsi-feng, Chia Jui entertains feelings of licentious love.
Chang, who was still at his post, took away all An Ching's embarrassment by greeting her with: 'Is the young Ku Nai-nai well? Then, after a few more formalities, he asked Little Yi to go and stand in the round gateway, so as to be able to warn them if any one came, and he began at once to discuss with An Ching ways and means for releasing the children. The arrangements were very simple.
He went ashore yesterday and bought himself a new blue coat. Not a cotton one, but silk, real silk, my boy, and beckoned me to come and see it, beckoned with one of his long claws. He's letting his fingernails grow now, and getting to be quite a swell." "Oh yes; old Ching's getting quite the gentleman. He says he wrote home to his broker to sell the fancee shop. What do you think he said, Gnat?"
This was after, at my suggestion to Mr Reardon, he had been sent out in one of the boats to board a big junk, and from that time it became a matter of course that when a boat was piped away, Ching's pigtail was seen flying out nearly horizontally in his eagerness to be first in the stern-sheets. But it was always the same.
As soon as I had an opportunity I started to go below and see Ching, but before I was half-way there I ran against Smith. "Where are you going in such a hurry?" "To see how Ching's getting on." "Did you put on a clean shirt?" "No," I said innocently. "I can't stand one every day." "Oh, come, this won't do!" cried Smith. "Here, hi, Barkins!" "What's the row?" said our messmate, coming up.
Lady Yuan is one of two of these court ladies who dwelt with the Empress Dowager in the palace, the other being Prince Ching's fourth daughter. She is a niece by marriage of the Empress Dowager, though she really was never married. The nephew of the Empress Dowager, to whom she was engaged, though she had never seen him, died before they were married.
"Here's a way for us to go down, at all events," said Barkins, after we had listened for a few moments for Ching's song, and the wiry notes of his instrument. "Yes, let's cut down at once," said Smith. "Where to?" I said excitedly. "We can't find our way without Ching." "No; and those beggars would hunt us down there at once," said Barkins. "Won't do.
Double march! snaps out the words of command in right military style, right in the presence of their own duke, who stands by amazed and helpless; and off they go. Then spaciously clears the matter up. Finds, no doubt, that it is all a mistake; supplies, very likely, an easy and acceptable explanation to save Ching's face; shortly has all things peaceably in status quo.
Young Ching determined to remove him from this post, in which he might have opportunities of asserting his independence, and for a moment it seemed as if he might disobey. But more prudent counsels prevailed, and he returned to Pekin, where he was placed in honorable confinement, and retained there during the whole of Yung Ching's reign.
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