"Certainly! to mine."
This was replying like an amiable and well educated man in all countries. I stretched out my hand to my dear mandarin, and we each of us returned to our own home. It was in consequence of this conversation, of which I have faithfully transcribed all the details, that I gave up the design of visiting the official city; my readers need not regret this. The descriptions and appreciations of Pan-se-Chen, are worth more than the accounts of those travellers who have already passed the gate of Chin-se-Moun, when … but you know the rest. I should add, that the whole of this conversation was owing to the extreme complaisance of Callery. I have more than once substituted my own name for his in reporting the incidents of this soirée; but that does not affect, in the slightest degree, the perfect truth of my recital.
