A Jardine Matheson schooner came in from the east coast with $15,000 in treasure, the proceeds of hardly more than forty chests, and there seemed nothing better to do than send her to join others on the west coast, for it was thought some opium might still be disposed of at Tinpak and other stations between Saint John Island (Shangch’uan) and Hainan.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:diacritical hook.

Guilt that all the penitential fires of hereafter can not cleanse.

All kidding aside, Carlysle . . . Carla, I corrected him automatically. I'm too used to thinking of you as 'Carlysle' and male to change both at once . . . All kidding aside, it'd be better for you not to stay on here any longer than the storm.