The Cantonese, excepting in the shops where he expects profit, always resents the intrusion of the fan-quei—foreign devil. It did not matter that he wore the cloth; something was wrong with him. He felt like a boy again, the taste for adventures was keen upon his palate, the whole undiscovered world of rhythmical things, of love and poetry and passion seemed again to him a real and actual place, and he himself an adventurer upon the threshold. Rain started to pummel the roof of the pavilion, which coalesced into sheets and rumbled to the cement below. ‘You have said you do not wish to marry me,’ she accused. I am the richest man in the world. If he awoke and caught you at it, there might be a set-back. It was a charming sight to watch the motions of her tiny fingers as she pursued her task; and though the posture she adopted was not the most favourable that might have been chosen for the display of her sylphlike figure, there was something in her attitude, and the glow of her countenance, lighted up by the mellow radiance of the setting sun falling upon her through the panes of the little dormer-window, that seemed to the youth inexpressibly beautiful.
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