The House of Velvet And Glass
“Lannie blinked, not clear where in the city he was, hurrying to catch up with the young man at an intersection thick with wheelbarrow pushers, carriages, and a cow.“Hey,” Lannie said, attempting conversation. The scholar did not turn. Instead he bounded across the street, ducking around other pedestrians. Lannie scrambled behind him, desperate to keep up.What should he do now? He didn’t speak the language, though it seemed that the lingua franca of Shanghai was broken English, scrambled grammar... interspersed with words in Chinese. The neighborhood around them morphed into a sedate Second Empire quarter, with brick avenues and elegant shop fronts, and Lannie heard snatches of rapid-fire French.As he trotted behind the scholar Lannie attempted to reason with himself. He could get along speaking good, clear English, if he had to. He felt in his coat pocket for the wad of bills secreted there. He’d grown up in a port town. He could make his way back, he felt certain. Find a place to berth for the night.MoreLess
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