THREE:On their return to Shanghai, the Doctor informed his young companions that they would take the first steamer up the coast in the direction of Pekin."It's a very simple matter," said Captain B, "when you know about it. The fact is, that we were once very near losing our lives by Chinese pirates, and we don't propose to have another risk like it."
THREE:"Oh! you wouldn't ask a rebel to sing that," she sighed, "would you?"
THREE:But since people are such fools, he said, does it matter?HONG-KONG. HONG-KONG.
THREE:"Yes, you mean a soldier's clean death; and what you want of me is for me to say that I, for one, will lose no honest chance to give it to him, isn't it?"Lady Keeling clapped her soft fat hands together.
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