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"Look, Jean," I said, "I believe that is an Englishman" but when he came up to us and raised his topi with a flourish Jean said mournfully, "No, it's nobody white," and I had to pick her up hurriedly in case she should say something more to hurt the poor Eurasian. When we come in from our walk it is tiffin-time. After that the children are put to bed, and I sit in the verandah and write and rest.
He seemed to have developed an ambition to leave no place of interest in or about Shanghai unvisited. Tiffin-time found them at a well-known tea-house in Nanking Road a tea-house with golden dragons climbing over its walls and long wooden signs bearing cabalistic figures swinging in the wind like so many banners.
"Thanks, very much," replied Sir Reginald, "we shall be delighted to accept your kind invitation. We will board you a few minutes before your tiffin-time, if that will suit you. And meanwhile, if you are anxious to proceed as you doubtless are pray do so, and we will keep you company." "That will suit me excellently," answered the captain. "I will stop again later to enable you to board me.
When that happens the fate of India may be in your hands and hers! Get out of my way now, until tiffin-time!" In a way that some men never learn, King proceeded to efface himself entirely among the crowd in the hall, contriving to say nothing of any account to anybody until the great gong boomed and the general led them all in to his long dining table. Yet he did not look furtive or secretive.
Percival considered it impertinent in an inferior to express enthusiasm for anything that was under the ban of his disapproval. Before the discussion ended it became his painful duty to remind Judson of the fact that he was an ass. At tiffin-time, when he descended to the dining-room, owing to the recent arrival of two steamers, all the tables were engaged.
By the arrival of tiffin-time we had drawn far enough down the river to be just meeting the first of the sea knocked up by the strong breeze, and I noticed that already a few of the seats at table that had been occupied at breakfast-time were vacant among them that of Lady O'Brien but my left-hand neighbour exhibited a thoroughly healthy appetite due in part, probably, to her long promenade on deck in the wind and the rain.
I had a hard time of it too, along of that rotten old Patna racket. Jove! It was awful. I don't know what I should have said or done if I had not just then heard Mr. Denver calling me in the passage. It was tiffin-time, and we walked together across the yard and through the garden to the bungalow. He began to chaff me in his kindly way . . . I believe he liked me . . ."
They had been filling the plates and glasses of these two ladies all the way from Calcutta; they had walked with them every day on deck, had fetched their chairs, picked up their handkerchiefs, and looked after their bottled beer at tiffin-time with an assiduity which is more than commendable in such warm latitudes.
I think you had better run up to the house, little one, for it's getting near tiffin-time. No don't you go Mr. West. I want to have a word with you." Miss Heatherstone waved her hand to me with a bright smile, and tripped up the avenue, while her brother unbolted the gate, and, passing through, closed it again, locking it upon the outside.
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