He could hear the music in the distance, and the burble and laughter from the library, and a high ringing in his own ears.

Ho-nei refers to the area north of the Yellow River stretching from modern Wu-chih 武陟 in Honan northeast towards modern Hopei; it was about 40 miles south of Han-tan 邯鄲 and later became a Ch'in commandery (T'an Ch'i-hsiang, 1:36 and 11:9).

Peacekeeping is one of the things that the United Nations, for all its foibles, does well.

But he said he had observed I was sometimes hoarse — a little roopy was his exact expression — and it should be, every drop, devoted to the purpose he had mentioned.