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artist Asiatic await balcony bamboo barbaric hideousness bazaars beds blocks bowl bunk cast china lamps flickering Chinatown Chinese Quarter Chinese question Christian city clean closed Confucius coolie corner crouch dark passage doors with legends dream drug Dupont Street eyes face feet square filth flanks her doors flaunts her scarlet flickering before graven floor flowers fold foreign look funeral gate glance glimmering of tinsel hand hanging hasten heads heap heart of Tartary hill hyssop indulge ingenious insensible jority kitchen lanterns lepers leprosy little China flaunts lottery ments mercantile establishments merchants Mongolian mourner nightly nook numerous odors opium habit orchestra Overhead swing pagan pagodas pawn pest-house pillows pipe pleasure-houses punk rags resound Sacramento Saffron San Francisco scarlet streamers overhead shades shadow sheath show-window sink sleepers slimy small door smoke souls sown squatting subdued light swarming sweeten tapers Tartary less American traffic transfixed venders walls window