human
China, The Long-Lived Empire.
gpt
We never talk about the early history of Her Majesty. I smiled in return and continued:
human
I have been told that she was born in a small house, in a narrow street inside of the east gate of the Tartar city--the gate blown up by the Japanese when they entered Peking in 1900. The princess nodded.
gpt
I have also heard that her father's name was Chao, and that he was a small military official (she nodded again) who was afterwards beheaded for some neglect of duty.
human
Do you know anything about the early life of the Empress Dowager? I asked of the eldest. She hesitated a moment, with that same blank expression I had seen on the face of the princess, and then answered very deliberately,--
gpt
Yes, everybody knows, but nobody talks about it. And this is, no doubt, the reason why the early life of the greatest woman of the Mongol race, and, as some who knew her best think, the most remarkable woman of the nineteenth century, has ever been shrouded in mystery. Whether the Empress desired thus to efface all knowledge of her childhood by refusing to allow it to be talked about, I do not know, but I said to myself:
human
What everybody knows, I can know,
gpt
Punch and Judy