With the black gold already gushing from his country's wells, the Iranian monarch did not show much interest in what the Republic of China had to offer in agricultural know-how, commerce, and cultural interflow.
This, I feel, is the key to my unfeeble longevity: more than twenty-five thousand days on this earth and no complaints.
He kept the biggest estates, and where he lacked troops to overawe the natives he evicted the natives and made a game reserve.
On their entrance, Aylmer was greeted by a new surprise—his daughter Lucy, whom he very naturally supposed was quietly in her bed, lay on the window-seat, the casement open, and herself asleep; but the traces of tears were upon her cheek, and her long fair hair loose, and yet saturated with the dews of the night.
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