text:  And I fear greatly; that in the extremity of your unbelief you say Tush tush--Ping-Kee is deceiving us by inventing foolish deceits! An English merchant would not make open profession of his bankruptcy; an English lady of rank would not exult in the number of people she had ruined by false play at cards; an English gentleman would not concert plans with his sister for the seduction of a lord's daughter; an English sheriff would not throw off his grocer's apron to go and receive the judges while an English barrister put it on and sold figs to the beautiful daughter of a British captain