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Messer Marco Polo

CHAPTER XIX
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"It is maybe your uncle and your father are pressing you to return.

Let you not worry then, for my father the great Khan will settle with them, too.
There is not a horse in all Tartary that your uncle cannot have, nor a woman, either.

And your father can have all the jewels of the treasury, and all the swords, too, even the sword with which my father conquered China.

My father will give him that if I ask.

Only let you not be leaving this moonlit garden." "Dear Golden Bells, it isn't that; but I came here for converts--" "Oh, Marco Polo, listen! There is a folk at Kai-fung-fu, and they are an evil folk and a cowardly folk, and my father abhors them.


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