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Not a passenger except myself on deck, but I cannot sleep. Vandy would be with me, I know, poor fellow, were he able to crawl, but the storm has settled him for the present. How strange that none feel sufficient interest to stay awake and watch with me! They would be amply repaid.
Now that building that is perfectly satisfactory," as if he had ordered a suit of clothes from his tailor and had nothing to find fault with. On the other hand, I have just come across a statement "that stern men, overpowered by the sight of it, have been known to burst into tears." It is this miracle of inanimate matter we are now to see. But here comes Vandy again.
While at Canton I had manfully resisted the temptation, but the thought of leaving China without the treasures proved overwhelming, and now my only fear is lest Ah-Cum should fail me. I confessed to Vandy, after we had had a glass of good wine at tiffin, and I shall not soon forget his quiet smile. "You've got it bad, haven't you?"
I shall get the blame; 'cela se concoit'. 'Young Harrington goes the day after to-morrow. Thought it better not to pack him off in a hurry. 'And just before the pic-nic; no, certainly. I suppose it would look odd. 'How are we to get rid of the Countess? 'Eh? This Bautru is amusing, Franks; but he's nothing to Vandy. 'Homme incomparable! On the whole I find Menage rather dull.
The beef and mutton are also good, as are the vegetables. Turnips, radishes and carrots are enormous, owing, I suppose to the depth and fineness of the soil. Vandy measured some of each, and reports: "Radishes, eighteen inches, and beautifully white; carrots, twenty inches, and splendid." WEDNESDAY, November 20.
It is always comforting to know that one's interests are in much abler hands than his own, and I always have this pleasure when Vandy is about. Wherever we go, Fusiyama looks down upon us. What a beautiful cone it is, and how grandly it pierces the heavens, its summit clad with perpetual snow! No wonder that the Japanese represent it on so many of their articles.
I know I ought to have looked for you long ago, but really I could not leave this spot. Look! there is no place like this." So it was all right. When one is called upward by the spirit, even the dearest of humanity must be left behind. But Vandy was in the right place certainly for one to take his farewell.
The natives keep ostriches as their chief dependence, and we are besieged at every turn with offers of rare feathers feathers feathers nothing but feathers. Our trip on the Pekin was the most delightful we ever had at sea; even Vandy was well, and gained by the journey.
To-day is marked by a notable invitation to dinner extended to us through General Bailey. We are to have the honor one not often bestowed upon globe trotters of dining with the Mandarin. The dinner lasted more than three hours, and was composed of I don't know how many courses. I depended upon Vandy to keep count, but he found so much to wonder at that he lost the run when in the teens.
Here is a description of a woman's jewelry, as taken from life by Vandy: lobes of ears pierced with holes large enough to allow one's thumb to be inserted; above these holes two small gold-color rivets in each ear; in each nostril two gold pendants, inserted by screwing in; through the centre of the nose a large silver ring; on each wrist four bracelets; higher up the arm more rings; around her neck a necklace; around each ankle a large silver ring; and around her big toe and the next, on both feet, were rings.
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