Excerpt from Civilization: Tales of the Orient
HE came out to Shanghai a generation ago, in those days when Shanghai was not as re spectable as it is now - whatever that says to you. It was, of course, a great change from Home, and its crude pleasures and crude com panions gave him somewhat of a shock. For he was of decent stock, with a certain sense of the fitness of things, and the beach-combers, adventurers, rough traders and general riff rafi' of the China Coast, gathered in Shanghai, did not offer him the society he desired. He was often obliged to associate with them, how ever, more or less, in a business way, for his humble position as minor clerk in a big cor poration entailed certain responsibilities out of hours, and this responsibility he could not shirk, for fear of losing his position. Thus, by these acts of civility, more or less enforced, he was often led into a loose sort of intimacy.
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