toy-mandarin

Updated: May 25, 2025

Lagarge, his companion a thin, cadaverous-looking man with a big head and the general air of having been carved out of an old root a great expert in ceramics listening intently, bobbing his head in toy-mandarin fashion whenever one of Holker's iconoclasms cleared the air. "Suppose they did pay thirty thousand dollars for it," Holker insisted, slapping his knee with his outspread palm.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero