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Excerpt from The Vermilion Pencil: A Romance of China Loh Fou - that indescribable mass of grandeur and mystery, in whose gorges unnum bered monasteries slumber, from whose peaks and cliffs temples gaze benignly down through the somnolent shadows upon the thoughtful pro geny of Panku - the world-chiseller. This slab worn road, after it leaves the suburbs clustering around the East Gate of Yingching, follows right obliquely across the rice-fields to the foot of the White Cloud Hills. To the residents of Yingching these hills have always been a source of delight, and for uncounted ages multitudes have crowded at sunset the towers and pavilions of the city walls to watch their glens and slopes become veiled in a filtering of delicate shades - lilac, amethyst and violet, until, through a deep of purple, they vanish into night - a utter ing of gorgeous shadows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.