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When they came, Li Wan remained in the lower story of the Ta Kuan loft, and looking up, she ordered the servants to go and open the Cho Chin hall and to bring the teapoys one by one. The young servant-lads, matrons and servant-maids then set to work, in a body, and carried down over twenty of them. "Be careful with them," shouted Li Wan.
Thus Yamana Sozen, as the high constable of Harima province, held administrative authority in fourteen districts covering an area of 10,414 cho, and if to this be added the expanse of his fief, namely, 8016 cho, we get a total nearly equal to the manors of Hosokawa Katsumoto.
Then she selected several books from the shelves, and sat down to write. Presently she looked up, bewildered. "Can I help you, Cousin Barbara?" said Patty, eager to be of assistance. "No, yes, " said her cousin, absent-mindedly. "Yes if you will please hand me the encyclopedia the one labeled cho "
His regret was naive, and at times really pathetic, in that I had devoted my life to the science of agriculture instead of to fiction writing. "But, man," I reasoned with him, "what do I know of myself about this Cho- Sen? I am able to identify it with what is to-day called Korea, and that is about all. That is as far as my reading goes.
The mules trotted through a coconut grove and for half a mile beside the sparkling sea before Ah Cho spoke again. "I tell you I am not Ah Chow. The honourable judge did not say that my head was to go off." "Don't be afraid," said Cruchot, with the philanthropic intention of making it easier for his prisoner. "It is not difficult to die that way." He snapped his fingers. "It is quick like that.
Then Ah Cho forgot the whole happening in a vision he caught of the garden of meditation and repose that would be his when he returned to his own land. He sat with impassive face, while the magistrate rendered the judgment. Likewise were the faces of his four companions impassive.
Ah Cho shivered as he lived it over. One blow of the belt had bruised his cheek, taking off some of the skin. Schemmer had pointed to the bruises when, on the witness-stand, he had identified Ah Cho. It was only just now that the marks had become no longer visible. That had been a blow. Half an inch nearer the centre and it would have taken out his eye.
Who can tell what numbers, ad- vancing just far enough to hear a cold welcome and join in the reserved converse of professed reformers, disappointed, disheartened, have cho- sen to dwell in unclean places, rather than en- counter these "holier-than-thou" of the great brotherhood of man!
He was a native of Cho Chün, where he possessed some fertile farms, and was a butcher and wine-merchant. Liu Pei, surnamed Hsüan Tê, otherwise Hsien Chu, was the third member of the group. The three men went to Chang Fei's farm, and on the morrow met together in his peach-orchard, and sealed their friendship with an oath.
"Providing the notorious thug Kai Lung is not thereby brought in," suggested the narrow-minded Ming-shu, who equally desired to learn the stratagem involved. "Weng Cho was the only one concerned," replied the ancient obtusely "he who escaped the consequences. Is it permitted to this one to make clear her plea?"
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