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"Any attempt to scale the barbed wire or to force either gate would set two or more of these ringing. A stray cow raised one false alarm," he added, "and a careless rook threw us into a perfect panic on another occasion." He was so boyish so nervously brisk and acutely sensitive that it was difficult to see in him the hero of the Nan-Yang hospital.
The meaning is that the fine qualities of the marquis 'reached to' and affected his ancestors in their spirit-state, and would draw down their protecting favour. Their blessing, seen in his prosperity, was the natural result of his filial piety. The Hwai rises in the department of Nan-yang, Ho-nan, and flows eastward to the sea.
"On the contrary, Petrie, Fu-Manchu would not have written in Chinese unless he were sincere; and, to clear all doubt, I received a cable this morning reporting that the Mandarin Yen-Sun-Yat was assassinated in his own garden, in Nan-Yang, one day last week."
"No, sir!" replied the clergyman and the change in his voice was startling. "I am called to Nan-Yang. Only One may deter my going." The admixture of deep spiritual reverence with intense truculence in his voice was dissimilar from anything I ever had heard. "Then only One can protect you," cried Smith, "for, by Heaven, no MAN will be able to do so!
J. D. Eltham, my dear Petrie, though he may be a poor hand at saving souls, at any rate, has saved a score of Christian women from death and worse." "J. D. Eltham " I began. "Is 'Parson Dan'!" rapped Smith, "the 'Fighting Missionary, the man who with a garrison of a dozen cripples and a German doctor held the hospital at Nan-Yang against two hundred Boxers. That's who the Rev. J. D. Eltham is!
As we passed downstairs the howling of the mastiff sounded eerily through the house, as did the clank-clank of the tightening chain as he threw the weight of his big body upon it. I sat in Smith's room that night for some time, he pacing the floor smoking and talking. "Eltham has influential Chinese friends," he said; "but they dare not have him in Nan-Yang at present.
The king gave charge to the earl of Shao, To arrange all about the residence of the chief of Shin, Where he should do what was necessary for the regions of the south, And where his posterity might maintain his merit. Hsieh was in the present Fang Kau of the department of Nan-yang.
"On the contrary, Petrie Fu-Manchu would not have written in Chinese unless he were sincere; and, to clear all doubt, I received a cable this morning reporting that the Mandarin Yen-Sun-Yat was assassinated in his own garden, in Nan-Yang, one day last week."
"Then you are going back to Nan-Yang?" he cried. "Now I understand! Why have you not told me before? That is the key for which I have vainly been seeking. Your troubles date from the time of your decision to return?" "Yes, I must admit it," confessed the clergyman diffidently. "And your warning came from China?" "It did." "From a Chinaman?" "From the Mandarin, Yen-Sun-Yat." "Yen-Sun-Yat!
Grandly lofty are the mountains, With their large masses reaching to the heavens. Shan was a small marquisate, a part of what is the present department of Nan-yang, Ho-nan. Fu, which was also called Lue, was another small territory, not far from Shan. The character for mountains' in lines 1 and 3 is the same that occurs in the title of Yao's minister.
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