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And Tilly spat, to show her disdain. "What have they been saying to you, Laura?" whispered Chinky, pale and frightened. "Whatever is the matter?" "Mind your own business and go away," sobbed Laura. "I am, I'm going," said Chinky humbly. "Oh, Laura, I WISH you had that ring." "Oh, blow you and your ring! I hate the very name of it," cried Laura, maddened.
Where nature makes the atmospheric changes, they are always more gradual and kindly than those we make at any season when we go from street to house or house to street. My brothers during the war always got colds when at home on leave, and those who sleep in a chinky cabin or tent soon find that they do not suffer and that they have an increasing desire for air and openness.
He was seated with legs crossed in Oriental fashion and with head slightly bowed. His face was calm and dignified. It had an impassiveness which made an interminable distance between him and those who had till now looked upon him as a poor Chinky, doing a roustabout's work on a ranch, the handy-man, the Jack-of-all- trades.
Had we been boys, I suppose Bessie and Sadie and the rest of us would have been a "gang," and would have popped into the Chinese laundry to tease "Chinky Chinaman," and been chased by the "cops" from comfortable doorsteps, and had a "bully" time of it. Being what we were, we called ourselves a "set," and we had a "lovely" time, as people who passed us on Broadway could not fail to see. And hear.
In her heart Laura was at one with this judgment; but it was not to the point. "Yes, but s'pose one was awfully sweet on you and you rather liked him?" "Catch me! If one came bothering round me, I'd do this" and she set her ten outstretched fingers to her nose and waggled them. And yet Chinky was rather pretty, in her way.
A small scrap of weedy carpet lay in front of the fireplace; elsewhere the chinky boards were unconcealed.
"Oh, M. P., I've never 'copied' in my life!" she cried. "Probably not. But those things all belong in the same box: lying, and 'copying', and stealing." "You never WILL believe me when I say I didn't know anything about that horrid Chinky. I only told a few crams that was quite different." "I think it's most unfortunate, Laura, that you persist in clinging to that idea."
It was, however, a big root-house used for storing vegetables in the winter-time. It had not been used since Mazarine arrived at Tralee. Into this place, nor far from the house, Li Choo and his two fellow countrymen had gone the day before, when Mazarine, in his rage, had come forth with the horsewhip to punish the "Chinky," as Li Choo was familiarly known on the ranch.
And the boys ran away, still mocking them. You could hear their shouts dying away in the distance: "Chinky, chinky Chinaman, Bow, wow, wow!" Not long after this the Toyman came out from Trennery's and climbed on the seat; and he and Marmaduke and Old Methusaleh jogged along towards home.
There was ould Mazarine, breakin' the poor child's heart, as fine a fella as iver trod the wurruld achin' for her, and his life bein' spoilt by the goin's on at Tralee. Then in steps the Chinky and with stren'th of mind and stren'th of fingers puts things right." "No, no, Patsy, you've got bad logic and worse morals in your head. As you say, things were put right, but trouble enough came of it."
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