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Disgustedly he turned into the very modern and official-looking residence that was the home of his friend, Andrew McLean, and the offices of that far-reaching institution, the Agricultural Bank. A white-robed, red-sashed and red-fezed houseboy led him across the tiled entrance into the long room where McLean was concluding a conference with two men. "Not the least trace," McLean was saying.
Wang seemed to think my insistence for I insisted, you know very stupid and tactless. But a drowning man clutches at straws. We were talking in such Malay as we are both equal to. "'Your fears are foolish, I said to him. "'Foolish? of course I am foolish, he replied. 'If I were a wise man, I would be a merchant with a big hong in Singapore, instead of being a mine coolie turned houseboy.
A slim Chinese houseboy, in plum- color and pale blue, with his queue neatly coiled, and his handsome, smooth young face always smiling, padded softly to and fro all day long, in his thick-soled straw slippers, with letters and magazines, parcels and messages and telegrams.
"Nenda officie!" indicates the charitable person waving his hand towards the hotel office. Then, and not until this permission has been given by some one, dares the savage cross the threshold to do his errand. If the messenger happens to be a trained houseboy, however, dressed in his uniform of khaki or his more picturesque white robe and cap, he is privileged to work out his own salvation.
For four years I was houseboy to an American family, from USIS, what you call the United States Information Service." "They taught you English?" Rick prompted. "I knew some, but we helped each other. I teached them Arab talk, and they correct me when I speak American."
It was like a lost word in every sentence in which the ordinary hopes of men are to be read, and he felt that until he found it again all the help Mrs. Lessing could afford him would not enable him to think of marriage as a thing desirable in itself. It was missing in him still, when he came that night rather late to the apartment where only the Japanese houseboy awaited him.
"Mizz Polks sent over her houseboy with a dish of fresh razberries fur yore breakfus'; and she say to tell you, with her and Mistah Polkses' compliments, they is fresh picked out of her garden specially fur you."
My houseboy might be in the rising, and I would never suspect it till one fine morning he cut my throat. 'But they would never find a leader. If there was some exiled prince of Tchaka's blood, who came back like Prince Charlie to free his people, there might be danger; but their royalties are fat men with top hats and old frock-coats, who live in dirty locations.
The recently imported Japanese cook and houseboy peered out after her from his kitchen window, his eyes actually losing their Oriental cast and growing round; a trick, this, of Iki's whenever Terry came into his view. "Part bird," mused Iki, "part flower, big part wild devil-girl! Oof! Nice to look at, but for wife Japonee girl more better. Think so."
"The boy is really a treasure," said Aunt Jo. "He can do something besides dance although he does plenty of that in the kitchen to the delight of Parker, Annie and William. He has been taught to work, and is really a very good houseboy. And he looks well in his uniform." "I'd like to see him in a uniform," said Laddie. "Is he a soldier, or a policeman?"
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