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Updated: May 13, 2025
Even more interesting was Madame Pfeiffer's peep into the "domestic interior" of Mandarin Howqua. The house was of large size, but only one story high, with wide and splendid terraces. The windows looked into the inner courts. At the entrance were two painted images of gods to ward off evil spirits, like the horse-shoe formerly suspended to the cottages and barns of our English peasants.
The chief priest wore a kind of white fool's cap, with three points; the other persons, who consisted of men alone, had a kind of white cloth bound round their head or arm. I was lucky enough to be enabled to visit some of the summer palaces and gardens of the nobility. The finest of all was certainly that belonging to the Mandarin Howqua.
Mr Pitskiver had recourse to his usual expedient, and said something about the feast of reason; Mr Whalley shook his head in a way that would have made his fortune in a grocer's window in the character of Howqua; and Mr Bristles prepared himself to reply while the four literary maidens turned their eyes on Aristarchus in expectation of hearing something fine.
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