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The guests came in gigs, in launches, dinghies, and longboats came with laughter, came with rejoicing, for they were to dine with the señor of the open hand, Señor Howland, who always opened wine as they would open tins of beef. The gods never repaired more blithely to a Bacchanalian revel on Parnassus.
The khan's wild hilarity and ribaldish jeers at the expense of his two subordinates, as he stands on the solid foundation of a feat happily already accomplished and surveys their trepidation, and hears their prayers as they are pulled like human dinghies through the water, is in such ludicrous contrast to his own prayerful utterances under the same circumstances a minute before that my own risibilities are not to be wholly controlled.
So they came, at half-past eleven, in their own ships' dinghies, which were sent back with orders to return at nightfall six big-fisted, more or less fat captains, and six big-fisted, beetle-browed, and embarrassed chief mates.
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