Books with title The Young Mandarin

Excerpt from The MandarinBefore setting out Mr. Ormsby had taken unto himself a young wife, of whom it might be said that she worshipped two beings, God and her husband, if, indeed, the husband did not come first. The unknown life into which she was about to plunge had no terrors for her' her faith was sublime, her love great. And so the two dear people sailed away, and in the course of time a child was born to them, and this child was now a girl of twenty or there abouts. N 0 further addition swelled the good man's home circle, and for the next eight years his letters breathed the happiness which was his, and which he most assuredly deserved. Then one day a letter came. His wife had been nursing some fever patients, and the infection had seized her. Nothing serious as yet, but he prayed for the mercy of God. A month after it was all over. God's will be done.Before her death he often spoke of coming back to the old country to renew old associa tions, but when she was gone he no longer entertained the idea. My work is here, he said, and here among my people I shall end my days.This, then, was the man who now invited me to come out and see a bit of the world before I undertook the arduous task of trying to conquer it He wrote: It is a long journey, my dear Paul (which name I received in honour of him), but I think you will find it a most interesting one. Perhaps the Mission will not have much to offer you in the way of excitement, and I know what young fellows are in that respect; but both Rose and I have entered into a solemn covenant to make your stay as, little wearisome as possible.As I read this out my mother looked at my father, and my father looked at me, and Vi cocked her pretty, perky head on one side and said, Oh, my!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The MandarinBefore setting out Mr. Ormsby had taken unto himself a young wife, of whom it might be said that she worshipped two beings, God and her husband, if, indeed, the husband did not come first. The unknown life into which she was about to plunge had no terrors for her' her faith was sublime, her love great. And so the two dear people sailed away, and in the course of time a child was born to them, and this child was now a girl of twenty or there abouts. N 0 further addition swelled the good man's home circle, and for the next eight years his letters breathed the happiness which was his, and which he most assuredly deserved. Then one day a letter came. His wife had been nursing some fever patients, and the infection had seized her. Nothing serious as yet, but he prayed for the mercy of God. A month after it was all over. God's will be done.Before her death he often spoke of coming back to the old country to renew old associa tions, but when she was gone he no longer entertained the idea. My work is here, he said, and here among my people I shall end my days.This, then, was the man who now invited me to come out and see a bit of the world before I undertook the arduous task of trying to conquer it He wrote: It is a long journey, my dear Paul (which name I received in honour of him), but I think you will find it a most interesting one. Perhaps the Mission will not have much to offer you in the way of excitement, and I know what young fellows are in that respect; but both Rose and I have entered into a solemn covenant to make your stay as, little wearisome as possible.As I read this out my mother looked at my father, and my father looked at me, and Vi cocked her pretty, perky head on one side and said, Oh, my!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.