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If thy humble slave may be permitted to advise, thou wilt call in the Chinese dog with two tails, who hath as yet repeated but one of his tales." "Not so," replied the pacha, "I am weary of his eternal ti-tum, tilly-lilly, which yet ringeth in mine ears. What else canst thou propose?"
The brother of the sun and moon had wed beauty had been laid at the golden feet the pearl beyond price had been found and lost. There had been joy and there had been sorrow in life and sorrow in death. The Black Dragon had proved the foe to the celestial empire, for it had swallowed up the pearl beyond all price. Ti-tum, ti-tum, tilly-lilly, tilly-lilly, ti-tum, ti.
Such was the grand and pompous marriage procession, which employed the whole population, so that there were no spectators except three blind old women, who were so overcome with delight that, when it had passed, they bowed their heads and died. Ti-tum, tilly-lilly, ti-tum, tilly-lilly, ti-tum, ti.
Such was the grand and pompous marriage procession, which employed the whole population, so that there were no spectators except three blind old women, who were so overcome with delight that, when it had passed, they bowed their heads and died. Ti-tum, tilly-lilly, ti-tum, tilly-lilly, ti-tum, ti.
Those eyes which should have sunned a court of princes, were dimmed with eternal sorrow. And who was the cause of this eclipse, but the miscreant gold-loving minister, Suchong Pollyhong Ka-te-tow. Ti-tum, tilly-lilly. The mandarins were summoned by the great Youantee, the court in its splendour bowed down their heads into the dust of delight as they listened to the miracle of his eloquence.
Let the other maidens be sent to their parents, for as yet there is not found a fit bride for the brother of the sun and moon." The imperial mandates were obeyed; and thus was the first part of the prophecy fulfilled, that "the pearl beyond price would be found and lost." Ti-tum, tilly-lilly, ti-tum, tilly-lilly, ti-tum, ti.
Ti-tum, tilly-lilly, ti-tum, tilly-lilly, ti-tum, ti. "I'm sure I don't wonder at their being tired," observed the pacha, yawning, "if they were like you." "God is great," replied Mustapha, with another yawn. "Shall he proceed?" "Yes, let him go on; wake me when the story is ended," replied the pacha, laying down his pipe.
Kate had told this a little at a time, with a few appropriate bars of music between, which suddenly reminded me of the story of a Chinese procession which I had read in one of Marryat's novels when I was a child: "A thousand white elephants richly caparisoned, ti-tum tilly-lily," and so on, for a page or two.
But first he struck his instrument and ran over a short prelude, which may be imagined by a series of false notes, running as follows: Ti-tum, ti-tum, tilly-lilly, tilly-lilly, ti-tum, ti-tum, tilly-lilly, tilly-lilly, ti-tum, ti. As he proceeded in his story, whenever he was out of breath, he stopped, and struck a few notes of his barbarous music.
And the brother of the sun and moon perceived that he was in the minority; concealing therefore his bile, he graciously ordered refreshments for the envoy, saying, "Let the dog be fed," and retired to the apartment of the peerless Chaoukeun. Ti-tum, tilly-lilly, ti-tum, tilly-lilly, ti-tum, ti.
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