Word: absurditiesâ
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...feeling that has made so many Americans ludicrous abroad. Yet behind all this, one senses the thing that is responsible for the book, though not for its absurdities???the glamour and the mystery of China, that strange Empire, whose people go about the grave business of life with a ceremonial as delicate as that of a fashionable tea, and about the trivial business of death with a proud and rigorous grandeur befitting heroes. In so much, Mrs. Miln is successful...
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