In a total registered electorate of 13,421,170, the smallest number of votes needed to win amounts to as few as 20,000 to 50,000 in many districts.⁶ ... ⁶This is leaving aside certain small districts such as P'eng-hu, Lien-chiang, and Chin-men counties where even smaller vote counts are sufficient to win because of small population size.

One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame.

When I went back, years and years later, she was a drunken, painted sham, still thinking herself the imperatrix of Mareshank, pretending sweet in that broken-down big house. I'd gone north, married, traveled the world.

High school was difficult, but it was a walk in the park compared to college engineering classes.