The most popular liquor is Shaohsing, a rice wine with much more moderate alcohol content.

In safe flats and dark restaurants, never the same one twice, we ate quiet meals, exchanged our goods and gazed upon each other with the incredulous contentment that passes between mountaineers when they are standing on the peak.

gashfull, horrid, meagre, terrible, ugly shape

It seems to me that girls ought to be early taught to discriminate, between the characteristic of a hymeneal connexion and of a dishonourable one apparently resembling it.