"OF course, you have a cook as well?" was. the next question to bring us back to the lady" had uppermost in Should think must even if it is only fo Yen, we avd & cook, two, for one in the ily confident had hardly time to attend to all the different things about the house which his responsi entailed.
how long do you say you ave had him "Oh, long enough," we retorted, by this time a little annoyed with the persistence of the lady.
"So that if you oat him nav, you very much! hhix station behind hheeause it ix the rate with the di fice and vecomlly Because it of forded a better opportunity studying the Blasted by Bach Out came the lorgnettes and again rudeness swept over the form of Wong.
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"That'll do, Wong. Just ask the masters what drink they wantchee chow." We hurriedly throw this Wong for there was a is voice. He had taken a very obvious dislike to the lady and was going to give her an earful on his own account.
At once all activity our major dome bustled about inquiring, to the needs of one and the while the pest of the evening took the old refrain.
"Does he keep the house clean?
know you men are not very care ful over things like that, and perhaps Wong lets things slide a ttle.
We curlly remarked that he seemed to do his work satisfactorily, but the lady would doubtless be able to see that for herself before the evening was finished, Meantime Wong was gradually working round the table, and every time he rose from a graceful flection over a pouring bottle his one eye sought our questioner with 'a baneful glare.
It isa peculiar thing about women that if their husbands under-
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