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could be supplied with the requisite number of cash and silver ingots. I admitted my own immense inferiority in capacity for threading my way through the infinite intricacies of Chinese finance, and pocketed, metaphorically speaking,—it is, of course, quite impossible to literally pocket strings of cash,—whatever sums I was awarded by the generosity and indulgence of the professional financiers.