“Now then ye heathen, hold, ’tis not how we Christians settle our differences.” “Yet they seem like white men,— ” “Cleverly indeed fiendishly disguis’d, tho’ ‘Darby’ and ‘Cope’ are not quite British Names, are they?” “Why, they are as British as anyone here . . . ?” Dixon points out. “Not according to your pay-List,— see here, it reads, ‘Darby and Cope, Chinamen.’ ” “Thah’s . . . ’Chain-men’ . . . ?” “Ah.” “Not the same,— ” “Oh dear.”
