Wordsworth had a poem that went like this:
To be alive at dawn was pure delight,
Alas, the finest young men rose early to The Paradise.
After arriving at Ambrettes, Georgiana watched Bonaparte and a group of high-ranking French officials disembark, while she remained aboard. On her table lay the work of a French engraver named Nick, which Lacretelle had introduced her to. It recorded Nick's experiences traveling around the world. He had spent ten months in Guangzhou and had nearly failed to return.
At first, she thought Nick had encountered some danger. Only then did Lacretelle slowly tell her the story.
While the senior missionaries impressed the upper classes with natural science, ordinary missionaries found that common people were more interested in Western medicine. More precisely, as long as treatment was free, they were even willing to let Mongolian doctors have a try. When Nick arrived in Guangzhou, the man responsible for receiving him was a priest who worked at a hospital.
At first, like any ordinary traveler, he went everywhere sketching and recording everything he saw in Guangzhou: streets hung thick with drying laundry, drunkards in taverns drinking and cursing, and prisoners wearing cangues as they were publicly displayed. Then one day, the priest's assistant suddenly came to Nick's room and summoned him to the reception hall, where he met a merchant from the Thirteen Hongs.
Nick had done business with this merchant before. The merchant handed him a letter written in both Chinese and English. Its general meaning was that the merchant had a daughter, only seventeen years old, who suffered from double pupils. After seeking medical help everywhere, she could perceive only light. He hoped they might find a way to cure her here.
At the time, people easily confused cataracts with cloudy pupils. Antonio Spaca,