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The brute laugh rose from the crowd and fell into surprised silence; but no rejoinder came, and they ate their supper somewhat thoughtfully. The Chinaman's quick, soft eye had glanced at Dean Drake when they laughed. He served his dinner solicitously.
I followed the buggy at a Chinaman's trot, thinking the thing over, and switching myself desperately, for the night was getting hotter and darker, and mosquitos livelier. You will bear in mind that I was now retracing my way.
The Chinaman's stiff lips moved for the first time, in his formal, precise English. "Yes, sir. Mr. Vandeman will explain." He crossed his hands and resigned the matter to his employer. And I demanded of Ina Vandeman, "You tell us your husband's present in this room? Now?" and when her answer was drowned in the noise, I roared, "Vandeman! Bronson Vandeman! You're wanted here!" No answer.
We suppose it is all in the point of view, and our point of view is that there is nothing except superficiality in the ordinary Chinese restaurants frequented by Americans, and those not so frequented are impossible because of the average Chinaman's disregard for dirt and the usual niceties of food preparation. Artistic Japan
We supposed therefore that its young had been hatched; and as they were in an inaccessible part of the cliff, we hoped they would escape the Chinaman's grasp. As we had given a good price for the first nests, the Chinese willingly sold us another dozen, with which, wishing them a successful bird's-nesting expedition, we returned on board the Dugong.
He seated himself upon a tea-chest beside the useful cupboard, resting his hands upon his knees and smiling. Kerry, chewing steadily, had watched the proceedings in silence, but now: "Constable Bryce," he said crisply, "you recognize this man as Sin Sin Wa, the occupier of the house?" "Yes, sir," replied Bryce. He was not wholly at ease, and persistently avoided the Chinaman's oblique, beady eye.
Now I come to think of it, his eyes very slightly slanted upward." Harley stared. "Like a Chinaman's?" "Oh, nothing so marked as that. But the same sort of formation." Harley nodded briskly and buttoned up his overcoat. "Thanks, Mr. Bampton," he said; "we will detain you no longer!"
I had become acquainted with a Chinese youth of about my own age, as I imagined, although from mere outward appearance it was generally impossible to judge of a Chinaman's age between the limits of seventeen and forty years, and he had, in a burst of confidence, taken me to see some characteristic sights in a Chinese warehouse within a stone's throw of the Plaza.
"The Chinaman's going to fix a bed for me. I'll look after Marion." So she yielded, and was glad of it when she had time to think it over. She gave Hillyer the bundle for Marion, and watched him go, waving a good-by from the veranda. Then she hastened to the kitchen to make apple dumplings for supper. If there was one thing that could always be counted on to soothe Seth it was apple dumplings.
When the wound healed, the scar drew his eyes close together, like a Chinaman's. You never see Squint's eyes more than half open. "And he's crooked, just like his eyes " Mother Howard's voice bore a touch of resentment. "I never liked him from the minute I first saw him, and I liked him less afterward. Then I got next to his game. "Your father had been prospecting just like everybody else.
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