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Updated: June 11, 2025
The Temple of Five Hundred Genii contains that number of statues, various in size, and was erected in honor of Buddha and his disciples." At the usual hour the party went to lunch, and were tired, though they had done but little walking. The sedans were dismissed till the next morning; the afternoon was devoted to an excursion on the river, and Tommy had been directed to provide the boats.
Besides, it is surrounded by a numerous escort. The sedans were constructed after the model of a large square garden-tent with a pavilion roof, the front side being open. The King somebody closely resembling him is selected for his double sits on a sort of throne erected inside.
Thieves and robbers plied their trade with impunity: yet they were hardly so terrible to peaceable citizens as another class of ruffians. It was a favourite amusement of dissolute young gentlemen to swagger by night about the town, breaking windows, upsetting sedans, beating quiet men, and offering rude caresses to pretty women.
It is needless to say that the young couple did not use hackney-coaches in times prior to the introduction of those serviceable vehicles, and that until sedans were invented my lady never used them. It is possible, indeed it is certain, that married ladies living in chambers occasionally had for neighbors on the same staircase women whom they regarded with abhorrence.
The boy's return in the most eager state of excitement at the shops, the horses, sedans, and other wonders, did something, together with dinner, to wile away the weary time till, about three hours after the Major and his daughter had returned, they were joined by the young baronet, who came running up the stairs with a good deal more impetuosity than he would have permitted himself at home.
"Yes, even if the boy is returning from America with Americans whose name is noted in the commerce of the country!" Sky-High returned; the family went aboard the cushioned boat, and at the landing were assisted into the sedans, and carried up the water-steps into a high garden, with pavilions, and then on to other gardens away from the river. Golden gables shone above the trees.
Nothing short of physical torture for the space of six hours seemed in store for us for the three occupants of that narrow coupe, like fashionable ladies of old, 'Close mewed in their sedans for fear of air. We could at least enjoy the selfish satisfaction of faring better than our neighbours.
That is to say, two upright boxes fixed centrally on poles, and differing in nowise from the sedans still the mode of carriage affected by ladies of Constantinople unless it might be in their richer appointments. Inside, all was silk, lace and cushions; outside, the inlaying of mother of pearl and vari-colored woods was suggestive of modern papier-mache. The entrance was by a door in the front.
At the landing we found a large party of priests, some bathing, some wringing their yellow garments; graceful girls balancing on their heads vessels of water; others, less pleasing, carrying bundles of grass, or baskets of fruit and nuts; noblemen in gilded sedans, borne on men's shoulders, hurrying toward the palace; in the distance a troop of horsemen, with long glittering spears.
Luxurious sedans and limousines with liveried chauffeurs blocked their crossing. She turned to him, her hand extended. "Good afternoon," she said. "Sometime, soon perhaps, if you wish, we will meet again; you will hear from me, because because I think you meant it." She added the final words lightly and with a smile. "I did," he said. She turned to the driveway.
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