make merry over it if the notion was presented to her
mind ; the Chetti rolls his obese person beside the
straight-stepping soldier fresh from England ; the Italian
organ-man collects his coppers with humility, a white
man in decay ; a gentleman going out to dinner drives
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rapidly through the crowd, his dress-front flashing
against the dark.
But the life is not all out of doors, and as the night
grows it becomes concentrated within. Here is the
new Burmese theatre, which is taking the place of the
open-air entertainments of half a dozen years ago. A
celebrated company is performing, and the most popular
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From a -painting by J. JR. Middleton
