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Bramah Ernest. KAI LUNG'S FANTASTICAL STORIES
KAI LUNG'S FANTASTICAL STORIES
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THE WALLET OF KAI LUNG
The Transmutation of Ling
The Story of Yung Chang
The Probation of Sen Heng
The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung
The Confession of Kai Lung
The Vengeance of Tung Fel
The Career of the Charitable Quen-Ki-Tong
The Vision of Yin, the Son of Yat Huang
The Ill-Regulated Destiny of Kin Yen, the Picture-Maker
KAI LUNG'S GOLDEN HOURS
The Encountering of Six Within a Wood
The Inexorable Justice of the Mandarin Shan Tien
The Degraded Persistence of the Effete Ming-Shu
The Inopportune Behaviour of the Covetous Li-Loe
The Timely Intervention of the Mandarin Shan Tien’s Lucky Day
The High-Minded Strategy of the Amiable Hwa-Mei
Not Concerned With Any Particular Attribute of Those Who Are Involved
The Timely Disputation Among Those of an Inner Chamber of Yu-Ping
The Propitious Dissension Between Two Whose General Attributes Have Already Been Sufficiently Described
The Incredible Obtuseness of Those Who Had Opposed the Virtuous Kai Lung
Of Which It Is Written: “in Shallow Water Dragons Become the Laughing-Stock of Shrimps”
The Out-Passing Into a State of Assured Felicity of the Much-Enduring Two With Whom These Printed Leaves Have Chiefly Been Concerned
KAI LUNG UNROLLS HIS MAT
Part I. The Protecting Ancestors
The Malignity of the Depraved Ming-Shu Rears Its Offensive Head
The Difficult Progression of the Virtuous Kai Lung Assumes a Concrete Form
The Further Continuance of Kai Lung’s Quest and His Opportune Encounter With an Outcast Band, All Ignorant of the Classical Examples of the Past
At the Extremity of His Resource, the Continent Kai Lung Encounters One Who Leads the Unaffected Life
The Meeting by the Way With the Warrior of Chi-U and What Emerged Therefrom
The Ambiguous Face Upon the One Found in a Wood and the Effete Ming-Shu’s Dilemma
The Concave-Witted Li-Loe’s Insatiable Craving Serves a Meritorious End and Two (Who Shall Be Nameless) Are Led Toward a Snare
In Which the Position of the Estimable Kai Lung Is Such That He Must Either Go Up or Down
Wherein the Footsteps of the Two Who Have Induced These Printed Leaves Assume a Homeward Bend
Part II. The Great Sky Lantern
How Kai Lung Sought to Discourage One Who Did Not Gain His Approbation
Part III. The Bringer of Good News
Whereby the Angle at Which Events Present Themselves May Be Varied
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Ernest Bramah
The Transmutation of Ling
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In this amiable manner the matter was arranged between Ling and Mian, as they sat together in the magician’s garden drinking peach-tea, which the two attendants—not without discriminating and significant expressions between themselves—brought to them from time to time. Here Ling made clear the whole manner of his life from his earliest memory to the time when he fell in dignified combat, nor did Mian withhold anything, explaining in particular such charms and spells of the magician as she had knowledge of, and in this graceful manner materially assisting her lover in the many disagreeable encounters and conflicts which he was shortly to experience.
It was with even more objectionable feelings than before that Ling now contemplated his journey to Canton, involving as it did the separation from one who had become as the shadow of his existence, and by whose side he had an undoubted claim to stand. Yet the necessity of the undertaking was no less than before, and the full possession of all his natural powers took away his only excuse for delaying in the matter. Without any pleasurable anticipations, therefore, he consulted the Sacred Flat and Round Sticks, and learning that the following day would be propitious for the journey, he arranged to set out in accordance with the omen.
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