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He gazed with a disdainful pleasure at the receding shore, and closed his eyes, to turn his back fairly and forever on the Chew-Sins and the Wu-Wangs, to let the Hang dynasty go hang, to shut out from all but future fireside-tales the thought of varnish-trees, soap-trees, tallow-trees, wax-trees, and litchi, never more to look on the land of the rhinoceros, the camel, the elephant, and the ape, on the girls with thick, protuberant lips, copper skins, and lanky, black hair, on the corpulent gentry with their long talons, and madams tottering on their hoofs, reminding him constantly of the animal kingdom, as figured to imagination in childhood, of the rat that wanted his long tail again, or of the horse that will never win a race, on the land of lanterns and lying, of silver pheasants and of scamps.
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