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My daughter wanted to go to China for her wedding trip, but now she is afraid. 'What if they think I'm one of them?' she asked me. 'What if they don't let me come back to the United States?'
'When you go to China,' I told her, 'you don't even need to open your mouth. They already ... aware know distinguish identify you're an outsider.'
'What are you ... speaking saying talking chatting about?' she asked. My daughter likes ... to speak speak to speaking spoken back, and question what I ... tell. say. declare. reply.
'Aii-ya,' I said. 'They know, just ... looking staring surveying watching the way you walk, the way ... you'll you'd you you're carry your face. They know you ... are do could should not belong.'
My daughter did not ... look look like look as if look at pleased when I told her that ... her she's hers she didn't look Chinese. Maybe ten years ... before, ago, previous, in advance, she would have thought it was ... bad nice good ugly news. But now she wants ... being to be be have been Chinese, because it's so fashionable. And ... she we I they know it's too late. All those ... years time periods days I tried to teach her! She ... listened kept used followed my Chinese ways only until she ... studied learnt understood taught how to walk out of the ... entrance door access way by herself and go to school. ... Only Alone Simply Singly her skin and hair are Chinese; ... interior, in, inside, inner, she is all American-made. She ... couldn't cannot can won't even speak Chinese.
It's my fault ... he we it she is this way. I wanted my ... sisters children relatives parents to have American circumstances and Chinese ... nature. atmosphere. reputation. character. How could I know these two ... parts things items objects do not mix? I taught her ... how how much how's how do American circumstances work. If you are ... created invented born delivered poor here, it's no lasting shame ... a some this the government gives you money. If the ... sky roof house floor crashes down on your head, no ... need should one needn't to cry over this bad luck ... those the all these lawyers will make the owner repair it. In America, nobody says you have to keep the circumstances you find yourself in.
She learnt these things, but I couldn't teach her about Chinese character. How to obey parents and listen to your mother's mind. How not to show your own thoughts, how to know your own worth. Why Chinese thinking is best. She never learnt this.
It was a dark, starless night. We were in the Northern Pacific ocean, on a calm sea. There was no wind at all, and our little ship was not moving. Our exact position I do not know. For a week, the sun had been hidden by a ... skinny thin slim narrow mist which had seemed to float ... below across through above us, about the height of our ... masts, roof, ceiling, clouds, sometimes descending to cover the surrounding ... lake land sea river like a blanket.
As there was ... not no none nothing wind, there was little to do, ... but then and because I was the only man on ... decking. floor. ground. deck. The crew, consisting of two men ... also with and then a boy, were sleeping in their ... room, cabin, carriage, seats, while Will – my friend and the ... boss captain coach head of our boat – was asleep in ... an a some the other cabin.
Suddenly, from out of ... near black the terrible darkness, came a cry:
'Schooner, ahoy!'
... It That What I was so unexpected that I did ... not have not never had not answer immediately. It came again – a ... speech noise voice sound strangely low and inhuman, calling from ... anywhere somewhere nowhere where on the dark sea to our ... left. boat. behind. mast.
'Hello!' I cried. 'What – ... So How Which What are you? What do you want?'
... 'You 'Do 'Don’t 'Have need not be afraid,' answered the ... strange surprising familiar uncommon voice, having probably noticed some uncertainty ... about of on in my words. ‘I am only an ... antique . . . ancient . . . old . . . mature . . . man.'
The pause sounded odd, but ... that then it there was only afterwards that I considered ... it's its it it is importance.
'Why don't you come nearer ... than?' then?' to?' from?' I asked, annoyed that he thought ... it I’m I that was afraid.
'I – I can't. It ... couldn't wouldn't shouldn't mustn't be safe. I –' He stopped, and ... then so just when there was silence.
'What do you ... say?' mean?' think?' do?' I asked. 'Where are you?'
I ... listened heard looked watched for a moment, but there was no answer. A sudden suspicion I could not explain came over me, and I quickly got a lighted lamp and knocked on the deck with my foot to wake up Will. Then I was at the side of the boat, throwing the yellow stream of light into the silent darkness.
I heard a slight, low cry and then the sound of a splash, as if someone had dipped oars into the water. Yet I cannot be certain I saw anything, except that with the first flash of light, there had been something on the water, where now there was nothing.