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...name was Supi-yaw-lat...
Here is the true story of Supaya-lat (as Author Jesse spells her) and how she came to be Thibaw's queen; how the riotous, sometimes murderous goings-on in the Golden Palace of Mandalay finally brought the British to Upper Burma, to extinguish in one night the picture-book existence of the Lord of All Power and Glory, the Centre of the Universe...
Fanny, the pretty little Burmese-Italian half-caste, was the immediate cause of Mandalay's downfall. When good King Mindon died, and the unscrupulous Supaya-lat married Thibaw, a minor prince, and engineered a coup d'etat which landed him on the throne, his brothers and their supporters in a bloody grave, Fanny, her European maid-of-honor, found herself a favorite. In spite of wholesale massacres not quite drowned out by nightlong music and daylong feasting, Fanny enjoyed those butterfly years. But then she fell in love with Bonvoisin, who had come to the court...
Sprawling like a high-humped lizard on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean is a mighty ridge, its lazy length (about 50 degrees N. lat. to 40 degrees S. lat.) following the S-shaped outlines of the continents on either side. A sheer 9,000 feet of height, it towers in the way of deep sea fishes scurrying from Pernambuco to Benguel. Its knobby head rises curiously above the waters in the north (Azores plateau); St. Paul, Ascension Island, and Tristan da Cunha mark its southern peaks...
...like an ostler at his master's wedding, awkward but proud, mortified but grinning, sheepish without shame. There was much in store for him to endure ? the prodding of Mississippi's Harrison, the cold twitting of Nebraska's Norris, the rabbit-punching of Missouri's Reed. The lat ter chewed softly on his cigar, glancing only now and again across the aisle where sat the other Reed, haggard but urbane, threatening to fili buster for his colleague...