These 40,000 are a very interesting people who say they once lived in Kwangtung, but who came up to Chekiang through the high hill tops of Fukien where, in Ningteh county in north-eastern Fukien, 134,000 of them now form the largest group in any one place.]

Mechanically he returned home, gathered together a few small necessaries and special treasures he was fond of, and put them in a satchel; acting with slow deliberation, moving about the room like a sleep-walker; listening ever with parted lips.

[His love was] as impossible to restore to growth as a deep-rooted plant torn from its bed.

He really is a true friend. / Really? What makes you so sure?