peacharina

Updated: May 31, 2025

Young lady: "It's all off with me all right, if it don't change soon, and don't you forget it!" Heathen Chinee: "I wish I could do something." Young lady: "Well, you'll have to get a move on you, as I go back to school to-morrow; then there'll be something doing." Heathen Chinee: "Have you seen lately?" Young lady: "Yes, and isn't he a peach? Ah, he's a peacharina, and don't you forget it!"

- As A Chinaman Saw Us: Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home