When you are dealing with a mandarin, you should always be on the lookout.

Nevertheless, the examination raises no difficulty, and the seal of the green dragon declares me all in order.
The same result with regard to the actor and actress.

Nevertheless it was worth while looking at Caterna while his papers were being examined.

He assumed the attitude of a criminal endeavoring to mollify a magistrate, he made the sheepiest of eyes, and smiled the most deprecating of smiles, and seemed to implore a grace or rather a favor, and yet the most obdurate of the Chinamen had not a word to say to him.
"Correct," said the interpreter.
"Thank you, my prince!" replied Caterna, with the accent of a Paris street boy.
As to Ephrinell and Miss Bluett, they went through like a posted letter.

If an American commercial and an English ditto were not in order, who would be?
Uncle Sam and John Bull are one as far as that goes.
The other travelers, Russian and Turkoman, underwent examination without any difficulty arising.