Peter the Brazen: A Mystery Story of Modern China
Worts, George F. (George Frank) (1892)
- Language:
- en
- Length:
- 90,343 · 8 h
How it begins
"How serene the joy, when things that are made for each other meet and are joined; but ah,— how rarely they meet and are joined, the things that are made for each other!" —SAO-NAN. When Peter Moore entered the static-room, picked his way swiftly and unnoticingly across the littered floor, and jerked open the frosted glass door of the chief operator's office, the assembled operators followed him with glances of admiration and concern. No one ever entered the Chief's office in that fashion. One waited until called upon. But Moore was privileged.
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