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Cinderella in the Modern World I have a friend who’s the kind of woman people call a "green tea bitch" – yet she doesn’t feel ashamed of it at all; instead, she takes pride in the label. She’s hit on ...

Chapter 4 When I arrived downstairs at the new house, it was pitch-black inside. I immediately realized Alex had lied to me—he’d just been testing me, and he hadn’t actually gone home. But there was s...

CHAPTER XIV We had hardly settled down to our ordinary life at Kuching, when the news came of a tribe of Dyaks giving trouble in the Batang Lupar district. Mr. Frank Maxwell was in charge of the place...

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Three days after Zhang Mingzhe left his card, another person showed up. Qian Zhiyuan. General Manager of Tianchen Precision. He drove a black Audi A6 and parked at the workshop entrance. I saw him get...

Ji Qian’ang had been at the Tang residence for more than a month. First, Tang Yu had ruined his eye. Then he had made him sleep on a hard bed in the side wing without so much as a pillow. And all this...

CHAPTER LVI I become acquainted with Narcissa’s brother, who invites me to his House, where I am introduced to that adorable Creature—after dinner, the Squire retires to take his nap—Freeman, guessing...

CHAPTER XIII When we returned to Sarawak, I felt, as it were, a giant refreshed. All symptoms of malaria had gone, and, as we steamed under the landing-place of the Astana, I could see on its broad ve...

CHAPTER XXII T he next thing the Stirlings heard was that Valancy had been seen with Barney Snaith in a movie theatre in Port Lawrence and after it at supper in a Chinese restaurant there. This was qu...

CHAPTER FORTY HE CONTEMPLATES MAJESTY AND ITS SATELLITES IN ECLIPSE. This expedition being happily finished, General Macleaver put the whole army, navy, transports, and scene of action into a canvas b...

CHAPTER X FACTS AND FANCIES A SHORT while later the inspector addressed them mildly: “I very often get a great deal of blame because I won’t do things in a regulation way. But, even while I get the bl...

§ 10 Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition The agitation for the Universal Colour Bill continued for three years; and up to the last moment of that period it seemed as though Anarchy were desti...

CHAPTER XII It might be interesting to explain, as briefly as possible, the position the Rajahs and their people occupied in that great concern we now know under the name of the British Empire. When t...

CHAPTER XI During those first four years of my stay in Sarawak, the advent of a little girl and twin boys served to show still more strongly the affection and devotion of the people for their chief. L...

## Valdieri House Courtyard — Afternoon After opening the door, the man led Rain onto a pale gray stone path. Closely cropped lawns flanked it, their grass deep and even in color, clearly tended with ...

CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX THE HISTORY DRAWS NEAR A PERIOD. Universal was the applause which they acquired by this noble sacrifice of their resentment. The afternoon was spent in the utmost harmony and good-hu...

CHAPTER X There are certain animals in Sarawak, very little mentioned by travellers, with which we are always surrounded. These are the lizards which run up and down the walls of all houses in the tro...

CHAPTER XXII Captives “You know ’em?” Mike asked, pointing with his thumb to the two boys. “Know ’em? Listen, brother!” Peterson paused impressively. “These are the sons of old man Manley who owns the...

CHAPTER IX Despite my love for Sarawak, there were three great drawbacks to my comfort, namely, malaria, mosquitoes, and rats. One knows that the tropics, especially where the moisture is excessive, a...

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CONTENTS PREFACE TO 1850 EDITION PREFACE TO THE CHARLES DICKENS EDITION THE PERSONAL HISTORY AND EXPERIENCE OF DAVID COPPERFIELD THE YOUNGER CHAPTER 1. — I AM BORN CHAPTER 2. — I OBSERVE CHAPTER 3. — ...

CHAPTER XXI We had sad work with little Cathy that day: she rose in high glee, eager to join her cousin, and such passionate tears and lamentations followed the news of his departure that Edgar himsel...

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CHAPTER VIII Some months had gone by since the day of my first arrival in Kuching and, odd as it may seem, Europe and all its ways were relegated as it were to an almost imperceptible background in my...

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CHAPTER VII The Rejang River deserves a few words of explanation. It is a magnificent roadway to commerce in the interior, and once the head-hunting propensities of the tribes in its neighbourhood are...

CHAPTER VI The next day we embarked on the Heartsease for Sibu. My journey down the river was very different from my voyage to Kuching two or three months before, for everything now interested me. I w...

CHAPTER V The expedition which had taken the Rajah into the interior was only one among many he had to undertake in order that trade and commerce might be established in safety in remote parts of his ...

CHAPTER IV Then began a very agreeable time, such as usually comes with a new and interesting friendship. I think the Malay women as well as myself were mutually interested in one another, and I encou...

CHAPTER III The Rajah and I had only been a few weeks in Kuching when he had to leave me and go on an expedition to the interior, and I was left alone in the Astana with a maid whom I had brought from...

CHAPTER II Sarawak is a land of mountains, of trees, and of water. Steaming from Singapore on your way to Kuching, you enter a great crescent-shaped bay called Datu. The most important rivers of Saraw...

MY LIFE IN SARAWAK CHAPTER I When I remember Sarawak, its remoteness, the dreamy loveliness of its landscape, the childlike confidence its people have in their rulers, I long to take the first ship ba...

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS H.H. The Rajah of Sarawak Frontispiece FACING PAGE The Author 2 From a Painting by Mrs. Alfred Sotheby The Rajah’s Arrival at Astana, after a Visit to Europe 8 Part of Datu Bay, ...

INTRODUCTION Every one has heard of Rajah Brooke. He was my husband’s uncle, and this is how he became ruler of Sarawak. Borneo is one of the largest islands of the world. The Dutch occupy three parts...

First Published in 1913 PREFACE It is well for the Malay races of Sarawak that they should find an advocate in their Ranee, for she loves them. To know Ranee Brooke is to know that, and those who read...

MY LIFE IN SARAWAK BY THE RANEE OF SARAWAK PREFACE BY SIR FRANK SWETTENHAM, G.C.M.G. GOVERNOR OF THE STRAITS COLONY HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND LATE CONSUL-GENERAL FOR BORNEO ...

MY LIFE IN SARAWAK H.H. THE RAJAH OF SARAWAK

CONTENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII C...