"Please detail your activities from hour of twenty minutes past seven onward," Chan requested.
"I was engaged with my duties, sir, in the dining-room and the kitchen. I may add that it has been a rather trying evening, in my department. The Chinese cook has exhibited all the worst qualities of a heathen race - I'm sure I beg your pardon."
"A heathen race," repeated Charlie gravely, "that was busy inventing the art of printing at a moment when gentlemen in Great Britain were still beating one another over head ith spiked clubs."
(from The Black Camel by Earl Derr Biggers)
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