“As a matter of fact, I deserve to. Then the hotel manager struck his palms together sharply, and two Chinese "boys" came pattering in from the dining room. Loose the wherry, and stand to your oars—quick—quick!" These commands were promptly obeyed. ‘She won’t like it,’ prophesied the captain gloomily. It had been intensified and corrupted by time, as if to add insult to injury. The lad had just barely jangled it, when hurrying footsteps could be heard inside. I dare say it will be chattered about for weeks. "Not entirely," replied Jonathan, calmly; "though I shouldn't be ashamed of it if it were. ’ ‘But what of justice?’ asked Lucilla, evidently dazed. "Nor any one else, I suspect," answered Ireton, winking significantly. Canton was something like a blind alley; unless you were native, you couldn't get anywhere except by returning to Hong-Kong and starting afresh. On the same day, moreover, which, by a curious coincidence, was the birthday of the Chevalier de Saint George, mobs were collected together in the streets, and the health of that prince was publicly drunk under the title of James the Third; while, in many country towns, the bells were rung, and rejoicings held, as if for a reigning monarch:—the cry of the populace almost universally being, "No King George, but a Stuart!" The adherents of the Chevalier de Saint George, we have said, were lavish in promises to their proselytes.
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