The lady of the lily feet; and other stories of Chinatown
Helen F. Clark
Paperback
(RareBooksClub.com, May 20, 2012)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ... bluff, and quite commended his sagacity. That he would eventually extricate himself from his present embarrassing position they did not for a moment doubt, and they smoked their long water pipes in serenity as they awaited the expected denouement. When Joy Come awoke that afternoon she was thoroughly tired of her prison. The shelf was too near the ceiling for her to stand upright, and she longed to jump and run. She almost pushed one of the tea boxes off the shelf in trying to turn around. She pulled her primer and three marbles out of her pocket and began to play with them, but she was dreadfully lonesome just the same. Then too, she was hungry. Ah Lon could not bring her any breakfast because Gum Yohe would persist in sewing by the kitchen table, and Ah Lon dared not so much as look toward the store-room door. In vain did she suggest that Gum Yohe "Go sew front room," so that she, the industrious Ah Lon, might wash the floor. Gum Yohe said it did not need washing that. day. Ah Lon talked about Joy Come and expressed great curiosity as to the result of the morning's inquiry in the court-room. She even grew so anxious that she begged Gum Yohe to go to the neighbors, down by Ah Fay's house, to ask if they had heard what was done, for Young Sing had not yet returned home. But Gum Yohe did not feel like visiting her neighbors, and failed to fall into the trap. It was full four o'clock and Ah Lon was almost in despair because the cravings of a certain little stomach troubled her conscience greatly. At last Gum Yohe settled the question herself by going into her own room to cry, and then Ah Lon softly mounted the ladder and earned up the steaming breakfast. Joy Come was in tears, very big, hot tears, but they all disappeared when she saw Ah Lon and wh...