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Updated: May 8, 2025
At last the thirst thinks its conquest assured, taking the hot tea for a signal of surrender; but I pour in more, and gradually feel the tea settling within me. I am a degree less torrid, a shade more substantial. And then here comes my boy. "Master, you wantchee makee one drink brandy-and-soda. No can catchee soda this side have got water. Can do?" Ah! shall I? Shall I? No!
Who the flamin' 'ell ever tried to sell you glue?" "Me only wantchee lemindee you," said Sin Sin Wa. "No pidgin." "George" glared for a moment, breathing heavily; then he stooped and resumed his task, Sin Sin Wa and Sir Lucien watching him in silence. A sound of lapping water was faintly audible.
By signs he invited us to enter a rather nice-looking building, built just like one of those little pagodas resembling card-houses that you see in the right-hand corner of a willow-pattern plate. "What a rum old joker!" exclaimed Ned, as the old fellow came up to us. "Chin, chin, Johnny, what you wantchee, no stoppee can do."
Previous to my arrival at the city I had instructed my English-speaking boy to make inquiries in the city, and to let me know afterwards, whether girls were still sold publicly. "Have got plenty," he exclaimed, in describing this wholesale selling of female children into slavery. "I know, I know; you wantchee makee buy. Can do! You wantchee catch one piecee small baby, can catchee two, three tael.
Presently the door was opened by a Chinese boy who wore the ordinary native working dress, and who regarded the man upon the step with oblique, tired-looking eyes. "Mr. Huang Chow?" asked the caller. The boy nodded. "You wantchee him see?" "If he is at home." The boy glanced at the card, which the visitor still held between finger and thumb, and extended his hand silently.
"S'pose you wantchee catchee olo chinaware, compradore savez talkee my," represents, "If you want to get some old chinaware your Chinese agent will let me know," while I have heard "two times twicee" for "twice two," and "last day to-night" for "last evening."
Wantchee one piecee very much tall, big piecee, can catch fifty dollar." Continuing, he told me that prices were fairly high, a girl who could boast good looks and who had reached an age when her charms were naturally the strongest fetching the alarming amount of three hundred taels. This was the highest figure reached, whilst small children could be had for anything up to twenty.
You win, I no makee shoot; you lose, you promise bring back pistol, then go way. My can do what thing my wantchee, see?" Tsang Foo looked at him cunningly: "I win, you belong good boy? Stop whisky-soda, maybe?" Reynolds laughed in spite of himself: "Going to reform me, oh? All right, it's a bargain."
I owed nothing; so far as I knew, I had done nothing wrong. "Hi, fellow! come out of the way! Reverse your carcass a bit, old chap! Get ! What the who the ?" "Oh, master, he wantchee makee much bobbery. He no b'long my pidgin, d rogue! He wantchee catch one more hundred cash! He b'long one piecee chairman!" This to me from my boy in apologetic explanation.
"Wantchee dlink," replied Sin Sin Wa. "Oh, I see. If I go out into the passage it will be all right?" "Allee lightee." Even as he softly crooned the words came a heavy squelch of rubbers upon the wet pavement outside, followed by a rapping on the door. Sin Sin Wa glanced aside at Sir Lucien, and the latter immediately withdrew, partly closing the door.
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