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Updated: June 27, 2025
He would wander for hours together about the dark packhouse loft, among coffers and casks and barrels and sacks, and it was as though he didn't like folks to come thither when he was there. Now it chanced on the day before Little Christmas Eve that one of the workpeople had to fetch something from the loft.
Now one year, when it was again drawing nigh to Yule-tide, he began roaming about as usual, heavy and cast down; and the day before Little Christmas Eve he took his wife along with him into the packhouse loft. "Do you see anything there by the meal sack?" he asked. But she saw nothing. Then he gripped her by the hand, and begged and implored her to remain, and go with him there at night.
The Chinese case was that it had been allowed to drop on both sides, and the utmost concession Yeh would make was to agree to an interview at the Jinsin Packhouse outside the city walls. This proposition was declared to be inadmissible, when Yeh ironically remarked that he must consequently assume that "Sir John Bowring did not wish for an interview."
But when it drew towards Yule-tide again, and the darkest time of the year, the same sort of restlessness came over him. It was as though they only saw his shadow amongst them, and he went moping about the packhouse loft again, and lingering there. On Little Christmas Eve the same thing happened as before he disappeared.
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