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They did not even know that the streets through which, they toddled were any more strange than the "Mellican" streets outside Chinatown, which they doubtless considered extremely dull, made up of huge gray and white buildings like mountains or prisons; whereas the tortuous ways and blind alleys of their home-town were full of colour; balconied house fronts, high and low, huddled together, painted red or blue, and decorated with flowers, or shaped like Chinese junks or toy castles and temples.
Besides, she added thoughtfully, reverting to his unlucky remark, 'haven't you a wife in China? "'I have two wifee in old countly, replied Ah Moy proudly, 'but I have none in 'Mellica not a single wifee no, not one! Ah Moy want 'Mellican wifee, so ba-ad, so ba-ad! he said plaintively. "Miss Cragiemuir was seized with a wild desire to shriek with laughter, but she wisely suppressed it.
Then, just when he was beginning to be frightened, she would come back and tell him her small adventure whatever it might prove to be. Cautiously she moved to the door, which the girl as cautiously opened wider. Then, in a second, she was out in the dusky passageway, beside her smiling guide. "Mellican gell see ole Chineseman smokee opum pipe?" the girl asked.
The tiny, dressed-up Oriental dolls boy and girls who strolled about with pink balloons or butterfly kites, in the short intervals between "Mellican" school and Chinese school, were not baby-actors playing parts on the stage, but real flesh and blood children, who had no idea that they were odd to look at in their gay-coloured gowns and tiny caps.
His voice was raised slightly, with a high comedy jauntiness, for the benefit of the Chinese waiters who might be lingering to see the "Mellican man" assume their functions. But it failed in effect. With their characteristic calm acceptance of any eccentricity in a "foreign devil," they scarcely lifted their eyes.
Mellican boy no good, but not so big as Mellican man. No can hurtee Chinaman so much. Shabbee?" Alas! I knew that this was mainly true. Mr. James Barry was an Irishman, whose finer religious feelings revolted against paying money to a heathen.
Taine at the door, explained, doubtfully, that the artist was at his work. He would go tell Mr. King that Mrs. Taine was here. "Never mind, Kee. I will tell him myself," she answered; and, before the Chinaman could protest, she was on her way to the studio. "Damn!" said the Celestial eloquently; and retired to his kitchen to ruminate upon the ways of "Mellican women." Mrs.
Sing Song climbed on the back of Ping Pong, and Ah See on top of Sing Song. But at that Ah See's head reached only half way up the great wall. He leaned down towards Marmaduke. "Come up, little Mellican boy," said he. And Marmaduke climbed up on the three backs and stood on the shoulders of Ah See, who exclaimed in delight to his friends, "Why, he not flaidlily at all."
After he had begged their pardon so nicely, the three little yellow men said, all together, "Little Mellican boy velly politely; he has honorable ancestors." Marmaduke looked around again and saw that they were standing, not on the bottom of the hole, but on a little landing like that on a stairway.
Below them the hole kept on descending into the darkness, curving round and round like a corkscrew or the stairways in old castles down, down, down. "Little Mellican boy like see China?" asked Ping Pong. "Very much, thank you," replied Marmaduke, trying to be as polite as they were. But the Toyman would miss him.
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