But where are you dining tonight?" asked the mandarin curiously.

"Yes, take it, and keep it for my sake; you know that I broke your mandarin.

I can buy her another mandarin the next time that old pedlar comes to the door, if that's all.

Cecilia paid the money, and was just going to carry off the mandarin, when the pedlar took out of his great-coat pocket a neat mahogany case; it was about a foot long, and fastened at each end by two little clasps; it had besides a small lock in the middle.

It issued a decree forbidding any mandarin to hold any post longer than three years in the same province, and prohibiting any one from possessing any official appointment in his native province.

I should only have done what I was bound to do if I had only given you a mandarin.

A base and extortionate government has often driven men in sheer self-defence to tearing down yamens and hunting down the "tiger" mandarin.

" Hugh again impersonated a Chinese mandarin.

I pictured the mandarins with their high caps, and the ladies with their tiny feet, when in the middle of the night the wind shifted, and on the 7th of July we had been carried back 115 miles.

But you must bring her a token, a shawl or something, and remember a sprightly little mandarin for our mantelpiece, as a companion to the child I am going to purchase at the museum.

He is too old to go to China and turn mandarin; in a word, if he is wise, there is no place but France for him.