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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...Seamen's Home can have little attraction at an hour like this! Of course. Pansy was there. She was known now. She was expected. Not by Tai Fu. With him she had had no dealings since the one night of horror she had spent under his roof. But to-night, in the gay confusion of the Causeway, she came suddenly and accidentally against his fat, greasy figure. She had apparently been jerked off her feet, and fell against his brown coat. He caught her. She looked up and, although on many occasions when he had invited her with a look in the street she had always killed him with a lip, she laughed. "Ullo, Chinky dear! Fancy falling into your funny arms!" He ambled, and smiled grotesquely. A small crowd, with fevered feet, mad for the hour, jostled and danced against them; and suddenly Pansy caught an outstretched yellow hand in one of hers, and, with the other circled about Tai Fu's waist, commenced to pull the bunch of them round in a whirligig. The others caught the spirit of it, and round and round they went, till Pansy, in a hysterical exhaustion, dropped out, and collapsed in high laughter against a shop. Tai Fu, his pulses hot for her again, dropped out, too, and moved to her side. The others slacked off in a scuffle, and one, noting Tai Fu, who was the richest of them still, cried in Cantonese that he should invite them in and play host. In a shrill metallic voice, Pansy seconded it, grabbed Tai Fu's arm and bullied him into acceptance; and soon they were crowding to his upper room. The word went round that it was open doors at Tai Fu's, and soon half the Causeway was struggling into one small room, snatching food and drink. On the way up the stairs Pansy leaned heavily against Tai Fu, sidling, nestling, and whispering words which...
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About the Author:
British author Thomas Burke was born in 1886 in London. He lived with his uncle when his father died, and he began working at age 16. By 1901, he published his first professional written work entitled "The Bellamy Diamonds" but he did not obtain acclaim as an author until Limehouse Nights in 1916. Burke developed his descriptions of London life throughout his later works. Burke died in 1945. His short story "The Hands of Ottermole" was later voted the best mystery of all time by critics in 1949.
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230395962
- ISBN 13 9781230395968
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages52
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