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Year

1911

Text

London, Jack. When God laughs and other stories. (New York, N.Y. : Macmillan, 1911).
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2545/2545.txt
A
wicked woman.
She had the grace of a slender flower, the fragility of colour and line of fine china, in all of which he pleasured greatly, without thought of the Life Force palpitating beneath and in spite of Bernard Shaw--in whom he believed…
Just meat.
Matt grunted a laugh and went on with his cooking. Jim poured out the coffee, but first, into the nicked china cup, he emptied a powder he had carried in his vest pocket wrapped in a rice-paper…
The Chinago.
In China, as Ah Cho well knew, the magistrate would order all of them to the torture and learn the truth…
But the Chinese had not complained to the French devils that ruled over Tahiti…
Ah Cho was going to have his head cut off, but they, when their two remaining years of servitude were up, were going back to China…

Mentioned People (1)

London, Jack  (San Francisco 1876-1916 Selbstmord ? Glen Ellen, Calif.) : Schriftsteller, Journalist

Subjects

Literature : Occident : United States of America