She has a most pleasant face, and really charming children; but the chief attraction of a Chinese lady is absent in her case.

Her feet are of natural size, and not even in the exaggerated murmurings of love could her husband describe them as "three-inch gold lilies." That this was a marriage of inclination there can be no doubt whatever.
It is idle to argue that the Chinese are an unemotional people, incapable of feeling the same passions that move us.

We ridicule the image of a Chinaman languishing in love, just as the Chinaman derides the possibility of experiencing the feelings of love for the average foreign woman he has seen in China.

Their poetry abounds in love episodes.

Students of Chinese civilisation seem to agree that a _mariage de convenance_ in China is more likely even than on the Continent to become instantly a marriage of affection.