It was very large and of white stone with a heavily porticoed entrance and Grecian pillars supporting an open balcony.
It was, he thought with a smile, even more impressive than Buckingham Palace as he had already been informed.
Inside the Chinese pictures, the jade and pink quartz as well as the finest porcelain were overwhelming.
There was a collection of Tang horses that Lord Selwyn thought he would give his whole fortune to possess and the rugs on the floor were so priceless that they should have been hung on the walls rather than walked upon.
Lin Kuan Teng had a charming wife and three beautiful daughters.
His son, he explained, was working at the docks overseeing his ships, of which he owned a considerable number.
The ship carrying Lord Selwyn had arrived in the morning and by
