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"China will miss you, my son," said old Kubla.
"It's nothing to how I'll be missing China," said Marco Polo. "Venice!
It's only a sound to me. I'll be an exile in the city of my birth.
But what's the use of complaining? If it's go, it's go. But it'll be funny," said he. "My body will be there, but my heart and mind will be in China. There'll be a gray eye always turning to China, and it will never see China... Queer!... All the voices and all the instruments in Saint Mark's, and in my ears the little drums of China... All the sunlight will be glinting on the Grand Ca.n.a.l, but the little rain of China--the little rain of China will be falling in my heart...
"Ah, well, if it's go, it's go. I'd better be hitting the road. So...
I'll say good-by for the present...and...
"Oh, my G.o.d Almighty!..."
