Amy and Marion's voyage around the world . gay harbor life, andeach day brings new diversions. We receive agreat many calls, and are invited to dinner ortiffin on steamers, go to see captains wives whoare our neighbors in the harbor, ride about thecity in sedan chairs to do our shopping, and takerowing lessons in the evening under the auspicesof Mr. Fordyce, or the first mate, or Arthur, whenhe is not playing the agreeable host to some skip-per. Brass buttons honor us frequently; the Ariadne officers really seem to have missed uswhile we were away, and are now making up forlost time. But with
Amy and Marion's voyage around the world . gay harbor life, andeach day brings new diversions. We receive agreat many calls, and are invited to dinner ortiffin on steamers, go to see captains wives whoare our neighbors in the harbor, ride about thecity in sedan chairs to do our shopping, and takerowing lessons in the evening under the auspicesof Mr. Fordyce, or the first mate, or Arthur, whenhe is not playing the agreeable host to some skip-per. Brass buttons honor us frequently; the Ariadne officers really seem to have missed uswhile we were away, and are now making up forlost time. But with all our gaieties, I do notthink we are quite the same girls who trod the Lyras deck two weeks ago. Our glimpseinto the heart of heathendom, and into lives ofsuch high and steadfast aim as those we haveseen, could hardly fail to have a deepening Canton. 195 influence, e^en upon the most frivolous char-acter. Write us all about everything and everybodyat home; that will make a letter equal in length to this. Yours with true friendship, CHAPTER VIII. BETTTBN TO HONG KONG. MARIONS STORY.
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