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MILN, LOUISE JORDAN In a Yun-Nan Courtyard
Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1927. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. No dust jacket. Cover edge wear, spine faded, pages toned, foxing on endpapers and insides of front cover, moderate shelf wear. 1927 Hard Cover. "A man in Vienna was fondling his fiddle; a girl in Poughkeepsie was gathering violets; an old missionary in a far part of far China -- the only white man for many an accessible mile -- sat in his sunny courtyard reading a time-yellowed silk of Chang Ts'ai-P'in's. A bandit of Sze-ch'uen was sharpening his knife. None of them could have believed how soon their lives were to tangle. Unless, perhaps, the missionary might -- for he was old; life and thirty odd years in China had taught him much; and he knew that on earth anything may happen, especially in China.".
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