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While the ladies were having refreshments, the Empress Dowager requested
me to come to her private apartments, and while we two were alone
together, with only a eunuch standing by fanning with a large
peacock-feather fan, she asked me to tell her about the church. It was
apparent from the beginning of her conversation that she mad