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Updated: May 14, 2025
Goussiev was not listening, but lay looking out of the port-hole; on the transparent lovely turquoise water swung a boat all shining in the shimmering light; a fat Chinaman was sitting in it eating rice with chop-sticks. The water murmured softly, and over it lazily soared white sea-gulls.
At first she had found her bed too large perhaps through the sense of emptiness left by the loss of her child; then, day by day, other things seemed to grow too large, the dwelling itself, the familiar rooms, the alcove and its great flower-vases, even the household utensils. She wished to eat her rice with miniature chop-sticks out of a very small bowl such as children use.
As tokens of his esteem, See Yup presented the party with gaudy plumes made of gold tinsel and trimmed with peacocks' feathers. We ate chow-chow with chop-sticks in the celestial restaurants; our comrade chided the moon-eyed damsels in front of the houses for their want of feminine reserve; we received protecting Josh-lights from our hosts and "dickered" for a pagan God or two.
"We call such chop-sticks komochi-hashi, chopstick with baby, because the toothpick inside the chopstick like the baby inside the mother. Very funny, I think." There were two kinds of soup excellent; there was cooked fish and raw fish in red and white slices, chastely served with ice; there were vegetables known and unknown, such as sweet potatoes, French beans, lotus stems and bamboo shoots.
What a set-out it was! Rice, of course; then three or four little basins with different messes duck, fish, chicken, and plenty of soy-sauce; more basins with vegetables, all eaten with the help of chop-sticks; and a teapot snugly covered with a cosy. I asked one day to taste the tea, and Johnny poured me out a tiny cup of hot, sweet, spirits and water!
The croupier takes a handful of copper cash and throws it upon the table; he then with chop-sticks counts the coins by fours, the betting being upon the possible number of the remainder. It takes a long time to count a big handful, and you have only one, two, three, or four to back no colours or combinations, as at rouge-et-noir, or trente-et-quarante.
"Beloved brethren in project!" he began, gesticulating with two Chinese chop-sticks. "Brute! Keep that chop-stick out of my hair!" cried his neighbor. "Called by you to fill the void that has been left in " "Plagiarism!" Sandoval interrupted him. "That speech was delivered by the president of our lyceum."
The little women make me eat, laughing much, with that perpetual irritating laugh, which is the laugh peculiar to Japan, they make me eat, according to their fashion, with dainty chop-sticks, fingered with mannered grace. I am becoming accustomed to their faces.
She was as neat as a pin, as were also the crew. The officers were most friendly and did everything possible to make things comfortable for a landsman in their limited quarters. The first meal on board we all used knives and forks, but thereafter they were only supplied to me, while the Japanese fell back upon their chop-sticks.
All the guests were manipulating their chop-sticks. Geoffrey raised his own pair. The two slender rods of wood were unparted at one end to show that they had never been used. It was therefore necessary to pull them in two. As he did so a tiny splinter of wood like a match fell from between them. Asako laughed. "That is the toothpick," cousin Sadako explained.
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