The doctor tells me that when they are not squeezing money out of the wretched Chinese, they dig it in _barrow-loads_ out of some magic island in the Atlantic or the Pacific--I really forget which.
"Anyhow, they could afford to _entertain_ much more than they do.

Mrs.Anstruther is very nice looking, and could be a leader of society if she chose, but she _seems_ to care for no one but her husband and her babies.

She has a boy and a girl, very charming children, I admit, and you seldom see her without them.

They have a French _bonne_ apiece, and a most _murderous_-looking person--a Mahommedan native, I believe--stalks alongside and behaves as if he would _instantly decapitate_ any person who as much as looked at them.

Such a procession you never saw! Mrs.
Anstruther's devotion to her husband is _too_ absurd.