Young John blushed at being found “gooping” at himself in the glass.

Stefania Chlouveraki, the project leader, stands at a long sorting table. She turns the colored fragments over and over in her fingertips. She fits each one into its place: a magnificent tableau of lions, crosses, pomegranate trees.

In I-wu county in Wu-chou (Chin-hua) there are scattered storehouse proprietors and brokers who undertake the buying and selling (of silk). ... Previously the people in the hilly valleys of I-wu county made their living by weaving thin silk.

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