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-"TIME," observed Lien Fa's parent regretfully, "speeds on with unseemly disregard for the feelings of such of us as would have time stand still." He sat at his ease at the opium divan.
-"That is true," answered Ming So. "Yes: I have often found what the poet calls 'a jade minute' pass as though it were but the flicker of a bat's wing."