The Turnstile of Night (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Turnstile of Night In a long, low-ceilinged room, where a brown curtain of opium smoke, three men sat by s small brazier of redsmouldering charcoal. Two were on a divan, bending forward, their elbows on their knees, their heads close together. These were Englishmen, one extraordinarily handsome, though his rippling bronze hair was streaked with silver; the other stout, white-headed, of the type that the Eastern sun burns red, with a mouth that seemed ready to smile, eyes on the point of twinkling, even in moments of seriousness. The third member of the party was Chinese. He sat on the clay floor with knees embraced between both arms, when his hands were not busy with gesture. His almond-shaped eyes were bright, the features of his round, yellow face intelligent and thoughtful. It was he who talked, in his native tongue, stopping sometimes while the bronze-haired Englishman translated to his older companion. They spoke almost in whispers, yet often their eyes shot hasty glances here and there, striving to pierce the dusk, and see whether any of the faces (half hidden in the narrow wooden berths that made this Calcutta opium-den like the forecastle of an emigrant ship) were peering towards their end of the room. But all seemed sunk fathoms deep in the dreams they came to seek. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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