Chapter 17: The Grand Minuet of Cathay

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​‌​​‌‌‌​​​‌​‌​​‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​⁠The Country Dances of these powderpuff Orientals were so truly inappropriate to the celebration that they almost succeeded in convincing by sheer want of fitness. Picture to yourselves two hundred blue and golden marionettes jigging to Sir Roger de Coverley or bobbing to Come Lasses and Lads. There was Merry England underneath this hugger mugger of yellow masks, yet the sustained motion was decide