Daring a dreadful pause, when neither of us could hit upon the' indispensable word, my companion grew impatient, Foyons," says he, "suppose you talk Chinese? Never mind mo; I shill look ax a." Chad to explain that in diniect—Mon Chew, sent-ils embétants, ces dialectes Chinois!"
The little luxuries of the establishment, Ah, jo erals bien, mon
biscuits, fruits, and a bottle of fragrant muscatel wine, were now pressed upon us, with a hospitable zeal that would brook no Tt was not by any means a case of quale platinum tale virwn," for the muscat was delicious, and inspired my friend B, with an eloquence that went far towards retrieving our jo credit, Snucking his lips, and with a gesture of gastronomic enthusiasm he cried out: Bowum vinum latificat cor hominum!" The rogue never found that in his Editio Vwgata, I'll warrant, When we inquired about the curio street, nothing would satisfy our good-natured host but he must take us there himself, which he did; and what is more, stood by us with aid and counsel through the dire Arudgory of an afternoon's bargain-delving.
Phe curio street la perhaps the fi Yangchow; no broader thin the but very gyy with gold-lnequered nbounding in handsome shops and ov flowing stalls, and filled with w bustling crowd of peuple who, of cou always thickest in our neighbourhood, a long street, so long that we never got to the end of it; and at every fourth or fifth door the merchants of br stood beaming an i. There just room enough to turn round in the sombre little niche of a shop, whose store of artistic treasures, never very largo, displayed with a good deal of skill upon the shelves and counters. Bronze vases and monsters; carved ivory frames containing slabs of polished marble, the natural markings in which resemble roughly print-landscapes in monochrome; cups of jade; snuff-bottles of agate, sardovyx or coloured glass imitating cameos; grotesque wood-carvings; all manner of cAadon crackle, sang de beuf, peach-bloom, flambé, black and white, forged, middling, and priceless; brass censers of curious
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