But thou wert then the woefullest of women.

Was it then in a pre-historic time that the Romans wandered into these lands?

She was not simply beautiful, but beautiful in a way that was so vastly improbable […] that to Richard, silly fool, she redeemed him, her, all of the sordidity and sopor, the tragic bathos that he felt sloshing about the Sealink.

As a result of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95, China lost to Japan the important islands of Taiwan (Formosa) and the Pescadores, lying about a hundred miles off the Chinese coast.