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VENERATED2 SIRE,—A discovery of overwhelming malignity3 oppresses me. In spite of much baffling ambiguity4 and the frequent evasion5 of conscious guilt6, there can be no longer any reasonable doubt that these barbarians7 DO NOT WORSHIP THEIR ANCESTORS!
Hitherto the matter had rested in my mind as an uneasy breath of suspicion, agitated8 from time to time by countless9 indications that such a possibility might, indeed, exist in a condensed form, but too inauspiciously profane11 to be contemplated12 in the altogether. Thus, when in the company of the young this person has walked about the streets of the city, he may at length have said, “Truly, out of your amiable13 condescension14, you have shown me a variety of entrancing scenes. Let us now in turn visit the tombs of your ancestors, to the end that I may transmit fitting gifts to their spirits and discharge a few propitious15 fireworks as a greeting.” Yet in no case has this well-intentioned offer been agilely16 received, one asserting that he did not know the resting-place of the tombs in question, a second that he had no ancestors, a third that Kensal Green was not an entrancing spot for a wet afternoon, a fourth that he would see them removed to a greater distance first, another that he drew the line at mafficking in a cemetery17, and the like. These things, it may occur to your omniscience18, might in themselves have been conclusive19, yet the next reference to the matter would perhaps be tending to a more alluring21 hope.
“To-morrow,” a person has remarked in the hearing of this one, “I go to the Stratford which is upon the Avon, and without a pause I shall prostrate22 myself intellectually before the immortal23 Shakespeare’s tomb and worship his unequalled memory.”
“The intention is benevolently24 conceived,” I remarked. “Yet has he no descendants, this same Shakespeare, that the conciliation25 of his spirit must be left to chance?”
When he assured me that this calamity26 had come about, I would have added a richly-gilded brick from my store for transmission also, in the hope that the neglected and capricious shadow would grant me an immunity27 from its resentful attention, but the one in question raised a barrier of dissent28. If I wished to adorn29 a tomb, he added (evading the deeper significance of the act), there was that of Goldsmith within its Temple, upon which many impressionable maidens30 from across the Bitter Waters of the West make it a custom to deposit chaplets of verses, in the hope of seeing the offering chronicled in the papers; and in the Open Space called Trafalgar there were the images of a great captain who led many junks to victory and the Emperor of a former dynasty, where doubtless the matter could be arranged; but the surrounding had by this time become too involved, and this person had no alternative but to smile symmetrically and reply that his words were indeed opals falling from a topaz basin.
Later in the day, being desirous of becoming instructed more definitely, I addressed myself to a venerable person who makes clean the passage of the way at a point not far distant.
“If you have no sons to extend your industrious31 line,” I said, when he had revealed this fact to me, “why do you not adopt one to that end?”
With narrow-minded covetousness32, he replied that nowadays he had enough to do to keep himself, and that it would be more reasonable to get some one to adopt HIM.
“But,” I exclaimed, ignoring this ill-timed levity33, “who, when you have Passed Beyond, will worship you and transmit to your spirit the necessities of life?”
“Governor,” he replied, using the term of familiar dignity, “I’ve made shift without being worshipped for five and sixty years, and it worries me a sight more to know who will transmit to my body the necessities of life until I HAVE Passed Beyond.”
“The final consequences of your self-opinionated carelessness,” this person continued, “will be that your neglected and unprovided shadow, finding itself no longer acceptable to the society of the better class demons34, will wander forth35, and allying itself in despair to the companionship of a band of outcasts like itself, will be driven to dwell in unclean habitations and to subsist36 on the uncertain bounty37 of the charitable.”
“Very likely,” replied the irredeemable person before me. “I can’t help its troubles. I have to do all that myself as it is.”
Doubtless this fanaticism38 contains the secret of the ease with which these barbarians have possessed39 themselves of the greater part of the earth, and have even planted their assertive40 emblems42 on one or two spots in our own Flowery Kingdom. What, O my esteemed43 parent, what can a brave but devout44 and demon-fearing nation do when opposed to a people who are quite prepared to die without first leaving an adequate posterity45 to tend their shrines46 and offer incense47? Assuredly, as a neighbouring philosopher once had occasion to remark, using for his purpose a metaphor48 so technically-involved that I must leave the interpretation49 until we meet, “It may be war, but it isn’t cricket.”
The inevitable50 outcome, naturally, is that the Island must be the wandering-place of myriads51 of spirits possessing no recognised standing52, and driven by want—having none to transmit them offerings—to the most degraded subterfuges53. It is freely admitted that there is scarcely an ancient building not the abode54 of one or more of these abandoned demons, doubtless well-disposed in the first instance, and capable of becoming really beneficent Forces until they were driven to despair by obstinate55 neglect. A society of very honourable56 persons (to which this one has unobtrusively contributed a gift), exists for the purpose of searching out the most distressing57 and meritorious58 cases among them, and removing them, where possible, to a more congenial spot. The remarkable59 fact, to this person’s mind, is, that with the air and every available space around absolutely packed with demons (as certainly must be the prevailing60 state of things), the manifestations61 of their malignity and vice62 are, if anything, rather less evident here than in our own favoured country, where we do all in our power to satisfy their wants.
That same evening I found myself seated next to a maiden of prepossessing vivacity63, who was spoken of as being one of a kindred but not identical race. Filled with the incredible profanity of those around, and hoping to find among a nation so alluringly65 high-spirited a more congenial elevation66 of mind, I at length turned to her and said, “Do not regard the question as one of unworthy curiosity, for this person’s inside is white and funereal67 with his fears; but do you, of your allied68 race, worship your ancestors?”
The maiden spent a moment in conscientious69 thought. “No, Mr. Kong,” she replied, with a most commendable70 sigh of unfeigned regret, “I can’t say that we do. I guess it’s because we’re too new. Mine, now, only go back two generations, and they were mostly in lard. If they were old and baronial it might be different, but I can’t imagine myself worshipping an ancestor in lard.” (This doubtless refers to some barbaric method of embalming71.)
“And your wide and enlightened countrymen?” I asked, unable to restrain a passion of pure-bred despair. “Do they also so regard the obligation?”
“I am afraid so,” replied the maiden, with an honourable indication towards my emotion. “But of course when a girl marries into the European aristocracy, she and all her folk worship her husband’s ancestors, until every one about is fairly dizzy with the subject.”
It is largely owing to the graceful72 and virtuous73 conversation of these lesser74 ones that this person’s knowledge of the exact position which the ceremonial etiquette75 of the country demands on various occasions is becoming so proficiently76 enlarged. It is true that they of my own sex do not hesitate to inquire with penetrating77 assiduousness into certain of the manners and customs of our land, but these for the most part do not lead to a conversation in any way profitable to my discreeter understanding. Those of the inner chamber78, on the other hand, while not scrupling79 to question me on the details of dress, the braiding and gumming of the hair, the style and variety of the stalls of merchants, the wearing of jade80, gold, and crystal ornaments81 and flowers about the head, smoking, and other matters affecting our lesser ones, very magnanimously lead my contemplation back to a more custom-established topic if by any hap20 in my ambitious ignorance I outstep it.
In such a manner it chanced on a former occasion that I sat side by side with a certain maiden awaiting the return of others who had withdrawn82 for a period. The season was that of white rains, and the fire being lavishly83 extended about the grate we had harmoniously84 arranged ourselves before it, while this person, at the repeated and explicit85 encouragement of the maiden, spoke64 openly of such details of the inner chamber as he has already indicated.
“Is it true, Mr. Ho” (thus the maiden, being unacquainted with the actual facts, consistently addressed me), “that ladies’ feet are relentlessly86 compressed until they finally assume the proportions and appearance of two bulbs?” and as she spoke she absent-mindedly regarded her own slippers87, which were out-thrust somewhat to receive the action of the fire.
“It is a matter which cannot reasonably be denied,” I replied; “and it is doubtless owing to this effect that they are designated ‘Golden Lilies.’ Yet when this observance has been slowly and painfully accomplished88, the extremities89 in question are not less small but infinitely90 less graceful than the select and naturally-formed pair which this person sees before him.” And at the ingeniously-devised compliment (which, not to become large-headed in self-imagination, it must be admitted was revealed to me as available for practically all occasions by the really invaluable91 Quang-Tsun), I bowed unremittingly.
“O, Mr. Ho!” exclaimed the maiden, and paused abruptly92 at the sound of her words, as though they were inept93.
“In many other ways a comparison equally irreproachable94 to the exalted95 being at my side might be sought out,” I continued, suddenly forming the ill-destined judgment96 that I was no less competent than the more experienced Quang-Tsun to contrive97 delicate offerings of speech. “Their hair is rope like in its lack of spontaneous curve, their eyes as deficient98 in lustre99 as a half-shuttered window; their hands are exceedingly inferior in colour, and both on the left side, as it may be expressed; their legs—” but at this point the maiden drew herself so hastily into herself that I had no alternative but to conclude that unless I reverted100 in some way the enterprise was in peril101 of being inharmoniously conducted.
“Mr. Ho,” said the maiden, after contemplating102 her inward thoughts for a moment, “you are a foreigner, and you cannot be expected to know by instinct what may and what may not be openly expressed in this country. Therefore, although the obligation is not alluring, I think it kinder to tell you that the matters which formed the subject of your last words are never to be referred to.”
At this rebuke103 I again bowed persistently104, for it did not appear reasonable to me that I could in any other way declare myself without violating the imposed command.
“Not only are they never openly referred to,” continued the maiden, who in spite of the declared no allurement105 of the subject did not seem disposed to abandon it at once, “but among the most select they are, by unspoken agreement, regarded as ‘having no actual existence,’ as you yourself would say.”
“Yet,” protested this person, somewhat puzzled, “to one who has witnessed the highly-achieved attitudes of those within your Halls of Harmony, and in an unyielding search for knowledge has addressed himself even to the advertisement pages of the ladies’ papers—”
The maiden waved her hand magnanimously. “In your land, as you have told me, there are many things, not really existing, which for politeness you assume to be. In a like but converse106 manner this is to be so regarded.”
I thanked her voluminously. “The etiquette of this country is as involved as the spoken tongue,” I said, “for both are composed chiefly of exceptions to a given rule. It was formerly107 impressed upon this person, as a guiding principle, that that which is unseen is not to be discussed; yet it is not held in disrepute to allude108 to so intimate and secluded109 an organ as the heart, for no further removed than yesterday he heard the deservedly popular sea-lieutenant in the act of declaring to you, upon his knees, that you were utterly110 devoid111 of such a possession.”
At this inoffensively-conveyed suggestion, the fire opposite had all the appearance of suddenly reflecting itself into the maiden’s face with a most engaging concentration, while at the same time she stamped her foot in ill-concealed rage.
“You’ve been listening at the door!” she cried impetuously, “and I shall never forgive you.”
“To no extent,” I declared hastily (for although I had indeed been listening at the door, it appeared, after the weight which she set upon the incident, more honourable that I should deny it in order to conciliate her mind). “It so chanced that for the moment this person had forgotten whether the handle he was grasping was of the push-out or turn-in variety, and in the involvement a few words of no particular or enduring significance settled lightly upon his perception.
“In that case,” she replied in high-souled liberality, while her eyes scintillated112 towards me with a really all-overpowering radiance, “I will forgive you.”
“We have an old but very appropriate saying, ‘To every man the voice of one maiden carries further than the rolling of thunder,’” I remarked in a significantly restrained tone; for, although conscious that the circumstance was becoming more menace-laden than I had any previous intention, I found myself to be incapable113 of extrication114. “Florence—”
“Oh,” she exclaimed quickly, raising her polished hand with an undeniable gesture of reproof115, “you must not call me by my christian116 name, Mr. Ho.”
“Yet,” replied this person, with a confessedly stubborn inelegance, “you call me by the name of Ho.”
Her eyes became ox-like in an utter absence of almond outline. “Yes,” she said gazing, “but that—that is not your christian name, is it?”
“In a position of speaking—this one being as a matter of fact a discreditable follower117 of the sublime118 Confucius—it may be so regarded,” I answered, “inasmuch as it is the milk-name of childhood.”
“But you always put it last,” she urged.
“Assuredly,” I replied. “Being irrevocably born with the family name of Kong, it is thought more reasonable that that should stand first. After that, others are attached as the various contingencies119 demand it, as Ho upon participating in the month-age feast, the book-name of Tsin at a later period, Paik upon taking a degree, and so forth.”
“I am very sorry, Mr. Kong,” said the maiden, adding, with what at the time certainly struck this person as shallow-witted prejudice. “Of course it is really quite your own fault for being so tospy-turvily arranged in every way. But, to return to the subject, why should not one speak of one’s heart?”
“Because,” replied this person, colouring deeply, and scarcely able to control his unbearable120 offence that so irreproachably-moulded a creature should openly refer to the detail, “because it is a gross and unrefined particular, much more internal and much less pleasantly-outlined than those extremities whose spoken equivalent shall henceforth be an abandoned word from my lips.”
“But, in any case, it is not the actual organ that one infers,” protested the maiden. “As the seat of the affections, passions, virtues122, and will, it is the conventional emblem41 of every thought and emotion.”
“By no means,” I cried, forgetting in the face of so heterodox an assertion that it would be well to walk warily123 at every point. “That is the stomach.”
“Ah!” exclaimed the maiden, burying her face in a gracefully-perfumed remnant of lace, to so overwhelming a degree that for the moment I feared she might become involved in the dizzy falling. “Never, by any mischance, use that word again the society of the presentable, Mr. Kong.”
“The ceremonial usage of my own land of the Heavenly Dynasty is proverbially elaborate,” I said, with a gesture of self-abasement, “but in comparison with yours it may be regarded as an undeviating walk when opposed to a stately and many-figured dance. Among the company of the really excessively select (in which must ever be included the one whom I am now addressing), it becomes difficult for an outcast of my illimitable obtuseness124 to move to one side or the other without putting his foot into that.”
“Oh no,” exclaimed the maiden, in fragrant125 encouragement, “I think you are getting on very nicely, Mr. Kong, and one does not look for absolute conformance from a foreigner—especially one who is so extremely foreign. If I can help you with anything—of course I could not even speak as I have done to an ordinary stranger, but with one of a distant race it seems different—if I can tell you anything that will save you—”
“You are all-exalted,” I replied, with seemly humility126, “and virtue121 and wisdom press out your temples on either side. Certainly, since I have learned that the heart is so poetically127 regarded, I have been assailed128 by a fear lest other organs which I have hitherto despised might be used in a similar way. Now, as regards liver—”
“It is only used with bacon,” replied the maiden, rising abruptly.
“Kidneys?” suggested this person diffidently, really anxious to detain her footsteps, although from her expression it did not rest assured that the incident was taking an actually auspicious10 movement.
“I don’t think you need speak of those except at breakfast,” she said; “but I hear the others returning, and I must really go to dress for dinner.”
Among the barbarians many keep books wherein to inscribe129 their deep and beautiful thoughts. This person had therefore provided himself with one also, and, drawing it forth, he now added to a page of many other interesting compositions: “Maidens of immaculate refinement130 do not hesitate to admit before a person of a different sex that they are on the point of changing their robes. The liver is in some intricate way an emblem representing bacon, or together with it the two stand for a widely differing analogy. Among those of the highest exclusiveness kidneys are never alluded131 to after the tenth gong-stroke of the morning.”
With a sincerely ingrained trust that the scenes of dignity, opulence132, and wisdom, set forth in these superficial letters, are not unsettling your intellect and causing you to yearn133 for a fuller existence.
KONG HO.
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