He was about to make a great Moral Experiment, the nature of which you will immediately understand.

None but a philosopher who had studied Confucius and Lao Kiun, would have conceived so fine a scheme.
First he paid a visit to Mr.Chalker.
The office was the ground-floor front room, in one of the small streets north of the King's Road.

It was not an imposing office, nor did it seem as if much business was done there; and one clerk of tender years sufficed for Mr.Chalker's wants.
"Oh!" he said, "it's our friend from India.

You're a lodger of old Emblem's, ain't you ?" "I have lived with him for twenty years.

I am his friend." "Very well.