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The next day he entered the washhouse of Chy Fook as an assistant, and on the following Friday was sent with a basket of clean clothes to Chy Fook's several clients. It was the usual foggy afternoon as he climbed the long windswept hill of California Street one of those bleak, gray intervals that made the summer a misnomer to any but the liveliest San Franciscan fancy.
One night I had been scribbling away past the usual hour of dismissing Wan Lee, and had become quite oblivious of his presence in a chair near my door, when suddenly I became aware of a voice saying in plaintive accents, something that sounded like "Chy Lee." I faced around sternly. "What did you say?" "Me say, 'Chy Lee." "Well?" I said impatiently. "You sabe, 'How do, John?" "Yes."
Jarndyce being abt to rece into his house, under an Order of the Ct of Chy, a Ward of the Ct in this cause, for whom he wishes to secure an elgble compn, directs us to inform you that he will be glad of your serces in the afsd capacity.
In a few minutes I heard his wooden shoes pattering pathetically over the floor. I looked up. He was standing near the door. "You no sabe, 'Chy Lee'?" "No," I said sternly. "You sabe muchee big foolee! allee same!" And, with this audacity upon his lips, he fled. The next morning, however, he was as meek and patient as before, and I did not recall his offence.
The Experiment was this. Beguinus, Tyr. Chy. Lib. 2º. Cap. 13º. We took good common Vitriol, and having beaten it to Powder, and put it into a Crucible, we kept it melted in a gentle heat, till by the Evaporation of some parts, and the shuffling of the rest, it had quite lost its former Colour, what remain'd we took out, and found it to be a friable Calx, of a dirty Gray.
"You sabe, 'So long, John'?" "Yes." "Well, 'Chy Lee' allee same!" I understood him quite plainly. It appeared that "Chy Lee" was a form of "good-night," and that Wan Lee was anxious to go home. But an instinct of mischief, which, I fear, I possessed in common with him, impelled me to act as if oblivious of the hint. I muttered something about not understanding him, and again bent over my work.
"And you must give her up soon!" said Zbyszko. Zych began to laugh. "Chy! Chy! The girl is only fifteen; but she is already fond of boys! When she sees one of them, she begins immediately to rub knee with knee!" "Tatusiu if you don't stop, I will leave you," said Jagienka. "Don't go! It's better with you here." Then he continued to say to Zbyszko: "Two of them visit us.
The next day he entered the wash-house of Chy Fook as an assistant, and on the following Friday was sent with a basket of clean clothes to Chy Fook's several clients. It was the usual foggy afternoon as he climbed the long wind-swept hill of California Street, one of those bleak, gray intervals that made the summer a misnomer to any but the liveliest San Franciscan fancy.
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