Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . hen thejewels were passed from hand to hand to be examined by theChinese ladies. This study of jewelry, of diamond and emer-ald, of ruby andturquoise, occupiedmost of the timethat remained tothe dinner. Onceor twice the tallform of the Vice-roy could be ob-served looking overthe heads of thec
Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . hen thejewels were passed from hand to hand to be examined by theChinese ladies. This study of jewelry, of diamond and emer-ald, of ruby andturquoise, occupiedmost of the timethat remained tothe dinner. Onceor twice the tallform of the Vice-roy could be ob-served looking overthe heads of thecrowd to see howhis wife and herforeign friends wereenjoying them-selves. When ob-served his Excel-1 e n c y not ap-pearing during thedinner, nor at thereception before,the Viceroy wasnow and then seen moving about among the curious gazers,evidently anxious about his feast, anxious that nothing shouldbe wanting in honor of his guests. After the dinner the party went into another room. Herewas a piano which had been brought from the foreign settle-ment. This was a new delight to the hostess, who had neverseen a piano, and she expressed her pleasure and of the pieces was a waltz, a merry German waltz, and twoof the ladies went through the measures, giving variety to the. CHINESE LADIES. THE LADIES RECEPTION AT THE VICEROYS. ,2g dance by balancing separately with one arm akimbo, the oth-er holding up the skirt, then twirling away to different partsof the room and coming together again. This revelationof barbarian customs created great astonishment, and whenthe dance stopped there was a chorus of approbation fromthe Chinese, as if they had discovered a new pleasure in theworld, the hostess nodding and smiling with more energy ofmanner than she had shown during the evening. This per-formance was witnessed by the Viceroy, who perhaps had hisown thoughts as a far-seeing statesman as to what Chinawould become if German music ever found its way into Chi-nes
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