Excerpt from A Free Lance of to-Day
Eyeing his white friend curiously, the Malay leaned for ward from his supple hips, so that his folded arms rested upon the matting of the floor. The dingy lamp-light falling full upon his face showed his bright, keen eyes. Glistening with suppressed excitement, his fierce mous tache twisted truculently upward, the gaudy colours of his Silk garments, and the swaggering peak of his head-ker chief bobbing and dipping with the motion of his head. A huge phantastic shadow on the wall behind him curtsied and bowed like an attendant goblin that smirked approval of his designs.
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