The Beautiful White Devil

Nonfiction, History, Asian, China, Fiction & Literature, Psychological, Romance, Historical
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Author: Guy Boothby ISBN: 1230000099238
Publisher: Herne Ridge Ltd. Publication: January 14, 2013
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Guy Boothby
ISBN: 1230000099238
Publisher: Herne Ridge Ltd.
Publication: January 14, 2013
Imprint:
Language: English

"The night was sweltering hot, even for Hong Kong. The town clock had just chimed a quarter-past ten, and though the actual sound of the striking had died away, the vibration of the bells lingered for nearly half a minute on the murky stillness of the air. In spite of the exertions of the punkah coolie, the billiard-room of the Occidental Hotel was like the furnace-doors of Sheol. Benwell, of the Chinese Revenue cutter Y-Chang, and Peckle, of the English cruiser Tartaric, stripped nearly to the buff, were laboriously engaged upon a hundred up; while Maloney, of the San Francisco mail-boat, and I, George De Normanville, looked on, and encouraged them with sarcasms and utterly irrational advice."

The Beautiful White Devil was first published in 1897.

Guy Newell Boothby (13 October 1867 – 26 February 1905) was an Australian novelist and writer.

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"The night was sweltering hot, even for Hong Kong. The town clock had just chimed a quarter-past ten, and though the actual sound of the striking had died away, the vibration of the bells lingered for nearly half a minute on the murky stillness of the air. In spite of the exertions of the punkah coolie, the billiard-room of the Occidental Hotel was like the furnace-doors of Sheol. Benwell, of the Chinese Revenue cutter Y-Chang, and Peckle, of the English cruiser Tartaric, stripped nearly to the buff, were laboriously engaged upon a hundred up; while Maloney, of the San Francisco mail-boat, and I, George De Normanville, looked on, and encouraged them with sarcasms and utterly irrational advice."

The Beautiful White Devil was first published in 1897.

Guy Newell Boothby (13 October 1867 – 26 February 1905) was an Australian novelist and writer.

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