"I was seventy years old my last birthday," he replied. "And he is still as strong as either of us ...
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of the eunuchs from the imperial palace, wandering about the city in search of something to please ...
XII The Home of the Court--The Forbidden City The innermost enclosure is the Forbidden City and co...
pupils, to dine with them and tell them more about the Gospel. The pastor hesitated to accept the i...
courage that was titanic to do so. But she never flinched, though we may suppose that many of her p...
the Great in Russia, and the more recent reforms in Japan, the history of which he had prepared in ...
it with a counter memorial denouncing him to the Emperor as a man who was making narrow-minded and ...
and whom they may never even see. When therefore the time came for the selection of concubines for ...
ordered the court artists to paint appropriate foreground and background and then called young Yu, ...
As a girl with home and kindred these will surely be your last; While expert in all employments tha...
remain behind a screen, listening to the deliberations but without taking any part therein, other t...
Grand Secretaries that she might be able to hear both sides of all important questions. One of the...
if the Empress Dowager has not preserved the best there is in it, viz., "the Peking University, and...
remember it. But I must go home--for I have things to do." Then, just as the Doctor was about to l...
more appropriate for her to prostrate herself at our feet and beg us to forgive her for trying to s...