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"Alas, Excellence," protested Ming-shu from a bitter throat, "this matter will attenuate down to the stroke of evening rice. Kowtowing beneath your authoritative hand, that which the prisoner only had the intention to relate does not come within the confines of his evidence." "The objection is superficial and cannot be sustained," replied Shan Tien.
The result was that in the summer of 1561, Sussex marched into the Northern Province. Shan after some preliminary skirmishes surprised his rearguard, and would have cut his whole force to pieces but for a desperate rally.
"Oh!" cried the little girl, falling suddenly backwards. "What's the matter?" demanded Alizon, flying to her. "Ey dunna reetly knoa," replied Jennet. "She's seized with a sudden faintness," said Harrop. "Better she should go home then at once. I'll find somebody to take her." "Neaw, neaw, ey'n sit down here," said Jennet; "ey shan be better soon."
It is natural enough for men who deal with the tiny, circling ball of a roulette wheel or with the turn of playing cards to deny any power higher than chance; but how of Napoleon, dicing for empires without end? and how of Columbus, sailing indomitably westward into the wheel of the sun? how of Shan Tung, surveying the rotting corpses of seven times seven cities of Chinamen slain by the Tartar sword? and how of Boston, on this February morning, looking white-faced on its own ruin, a ruin which, furthermore, seemed scarcely begun?
"We have passed into a new era, an era of peace and the higher fellowship. It is waste of time, labour and money to create these horrible instruments of destruction. The League of Nations has decreed that they shall not be built." "Nevertheless," Prince Shan declared, with portentous gravity, "a thousand of these engines of destruction are now ready in a certain city of China.
Prince Shan has decided after all to adhere to his original plan and come to Europe." "You are sure?" "I have an official intimation," he replied. "I may probably have to go to Paris, but no farther. It is even possible that I might leave to-night." She was genuinely interested. "There is no one in the whole world," she declared, "whom I have wanted to meet so much as Prince Shan."
He went on telling briefly what had happened at Miriam Kirkstone's house the preceding night. McDowell's face was purple when he described the evidences of Shan Tung's presence at the house on the hill, but with a mighty effort he restrained his passion. "That's it, that's it," he exclaimed, choking back his wrath. "I knew he was there!
Having reentered it, Miao Shan found herself alive again. A bitter sigh escaped from her lips. "I remember," she said, "all that I saw and heard in Hell. I sigh for the moment which will find me free of all impediments, and yet my soul has re-entered my body. Here, without any lonely mountain on which to give myself up to the pursuit of perfection, what will become of me?"
"You have lost sympathy with England, have you not, Prince Shan?" Maggie asked him. He turned towards her, a faint but kindly smile upon his lips, a light in his eyes which she did not altogether understand. "Lady Maggie," he said quietly, "they tell me that you are interested in the political side of my visit to this country." "Who tells you that?" she demanded. "What have I to do with politics?"
"Well," said Miao Shan to her father, "will you now force me to marry and prevent my devoting myself to the attainment of perfection?" "Speak no more of that," replied the King. "I was in the wrong. If you had not reached perfection, I should not now be alive. I have made up my mind to exchange my sceptre for the pursuit of the perfect life, which I wish to lead henceforth together with you."
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