... overrun with sedan chairs and filled with well-dressed officials, already busy with the "hsi-lien" (wash basin) In my dirty khaki clothes, out at knee and elbow, looking musty and mean and dusty, with ... spirit of simplicity They were living from hand to mouth, with seemingly no anxieties at all and yet, too, they were living without God, and with very little hope And here the foreigner re-appeared ... dressed in their best, stood with arms behind them, and smiled stupidly as I labored with my coat off fixing their primitive machinery Yet they did not know, and now, within a few months, not a...