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| THE AUTHOR visits the stranger’s home, and finds himself in a great room, which might be part of some Asiatic palace for aught I know, so exotically is it furnished and so colorful are its gorgeous decorations. With the closing of the outer door I leave behind the grey, bleak Western world. The room has been decorated in a quaint combination of Indian and Chinese styles. Red, black and gold are the predominant colors. Resplendent tapestries, bearing sprawling Chinese dragons, stretch across the walls. Carved green dragon heads glare fiercely from all the corners, where they support brackets which carry costly pieces of handicraft. Two silken mandarin coats adorn both sides of the doorway. Boldly patterned Indian rugs repose on the parquet floor, one’s shoes sinking delightfully into their thick pile. A gigantic tiger skin stretches its full length in front of the hearth. | THE AUTHOR visits the stranger’s home, and finds himself in a great room, which might be part of some Asiatic palace for aught I know, so exotically is it furnished and so colorful are its gorgeous decorations. With the closing of the outer door I leave behind the grey, bleak Western world. The room has been decorated in a quaint combination of Indian and Chinese styles. Red, black and gold are the predominant colors. Resplendent tapestries, bearing sprawling Chinese dragons, stretch across the walls. Carved green dragon heads glare fiercely from all the corners, where they support brackets which carry costly pieces of handicraft. Two silken mandarin coats adorn both sides of the doorway. Boldly patterned Indian rugs repose on the parquet floor, one’s shoes sinking delightfully into their thick pile. A gigantic tiger skin stretches its full length in front of the hearth. | ||
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| Over the coffee cups he tells me a little about himself. I learn that he has travelled widely and that he possesses some means. He regales me with vivid impressions of China—where he has spent a year, of Japan—whose amazing future he tersely predicts, of America, Europe and—strangest of all—of life in a Christian | Over the coffee cups he tells me a little about himself. I learn that he has travelled widely and that he possesses some means. He regales me with vivid impressions of China—where he has spent a year, of Japan—whose amazing future he tersely predicts, of America, Europe and—strangest of all—of life in a Christian | ||
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