The significance of this ceremony in the eyes of all Chinese can thus be appreciated, and the critical quidnuncs of the Capital are prepared to stake their reputations upon the fact that the President's steps up the marble terrace will be steps leading to personal occupation of the Throne.
Those who really know what the inner workings of the President's mind are stoutly deny that there is any personal motive in the cere-many at all. It is conceived to be, they say, a fitting function for the head of the government of the country to perpetuate, and for that reason only the revival is dezincd advisable, Nous verrons.
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