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"perhaps s��ɽ����ôլ�ߵ�ȫ����绰,���������ﻹ�и߶�ݸʽ����绰o," fred answered, "but you wait awhile, and see if i don't do something that will astonish our neighbors. i think it will do more practical good to introduce the japanese roof into america than the japanese pillow."��well, we��ve wasted enough time talking about it all,�� he said, ��if that��s all the reason i��m to hear.��fred said the best thing to prevent a horse running away was to sell him off.mme. le brun returned home and told the good news to her daughter��s governess. but while they were rejoicing over it they, in the evening, heard one of their servants singing below, a sullen, gloomy fellow who never used to sing, and whom they knew to be a revolutionist. looking at each other in terror they exclaimed��romethe dauphin��s eldest son, the duc de bourgogne, died in early childhood, leaving a fearful inheritance to his next brother, the duc de berri, afterwards louis xvi. from his very birth ill-luck seemed to [167] overshadow him. the dauphine was at choisy-le-roy when he was born, and none of the royal family arrived in time to be present. the courier sent to paris to announce the news fell from his horse at the barri��re and was killed. the abbe de saujon, sent for to baptise him privately, was stricken with paralysis on the great staircase at versailles. of the three wet-nurses chosen for him two died within the week, and the third was seized with small-pox in six weeks.not many years ago, china and japan were regarded as among the barbarous nations. the rest of the world knew comparatively little about their peoples, and, on the other hand, the inhabitants of those countries had only a slight knowledge of europe and america. to-day the situation is greatly changed; china and japan are holding intimate relations with us and with europe, and there is every prospect that the acquaintance between the east and the west will increase as the years roll on. there is a general desire for information concerning the people of the far east, and it is especially strong among the youths of america.mary thinking what she would like from japan. mary thinking what she would like from japan.
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and then the moment was over, except that in the secret place of his brain the voice sang in the{267} wilderness, and he looked at the letter she had given him. the words danced and swam; presently they steadied themselves.there had been a sudden silence when he entered; no one saluted him but mme. le brun, who greeted [286] him with a smile, but all regarded him with curiosity.���������ﻹ�и߶�ݸʽ����绰 his dress was not like those of the gentlemen present, nor of their class at all; it had a sort of bohemian picturesqueness which rather suited his handsome, striking, sarcastic face; he was very young, not more than about twenty, but he spoke and moved with perfect unconcern ��������ôլ�ߵ�ģ���������amongst the uncongenial society into which he had fallen. mme. le brun, tired of the stupid, contradictory remarks of the amateurs who then, as now, were eager to criticise what they knew nothing about, and nearly always said the wrong thing, exclaimed impatiently��in vain mme. le brun tried to dissuade her from this deplorable marriage, the spoilt young girl, accustomed to have everything she chose, woul