... dressed in their best, stood with arms behind them, andsmiled stupidly as I labored with my coat off fixing their primitive machinery. Yet they did not know, andnow, within a few months, not a ... together in their unspeakable vice and infamy, with no shame or commonmodesty, fighting for the wherewithal to live, and only by chance living regularly with one man, and then onlyjust so long as ... accommodation was to be had, all the inns wereliterally overrun with sedan chairs and filled with well-dressed officials, already busy with the "hsi-lien"(wash basin). In my dirty khaki...