“I cooked to-night’s rice with yours.”
“You may deceive men, but you cannot close the eye of Fate. You will yet be cut into a thousand pieces.”
“Bah! The Law is a rusty knife, my Church is a new cannon. They dare not question me.”
“By the Temple of the One God, you have a shop to receive stolen goods.”
“I am a Christian.”
“You stole the jade-tablets from the Ancestral Hall of Ho.”
“I am a Christian.”
“You were aboard the pirate junk that killed thirty people near the Lob pagoda on the fifth day of the last moon.”
“I am a Christian.”
“You stole the daughter of the Widow Chin and sold her to a whoremonger.”