Moreover, it is even now the exception for rich Celestials to yield themselves body and soul to the temptation. One opium-smoker goes to call on another, and the two indulge in a friendly pipe together as they chat about the weather, or the state of trade, or perhaps arrange a marriage for a son or a daughter; but the host does not expect to see his guest fall asleep and roll on the ground like a pig, any more than a European now-a-days expects his visitor to succumb to drink, and slip under the table as was so common an occurrence at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The ordinary opium-smoker does not light his pipe to induce sleep, but just to enable him to forget his troubles for a time, and no De Quincey or Sylvestre de Sacy is needed to prove that a man in rags may indulge in happy dreams of prosperity without leaving some cheap and dingy tavern. Still we cannot fail to contrast the ugly Chinese apparatus with all its paraphernalia, including the horribly smelling lamp needed to keep it alight, with the simple European pipe, so easily filled to begin with, and so readily replenished. The lover of opium seeks to be alone; he has no desire for the company of even his dearest friend in his den; but the smoker of the comparatively innocent weed delights in gathering his comrades about him, and there is nothing in the wide world more provocative of good fellowship than the fumes of tobacco. [Illustration: FIG. 44.--REQUISITES FOR OPIUM-SMOKING.] CHAPTER X Missionary effort in China--First arrival of the Jesuits--Landing of Michael Roger--Adam Schaal appointed Chief Minister of State--The scientific work of the Jesuits--Affection of the young Emperor Kang-Hi for them--Arrival of other monks--Disputes between them and the Jesuits--The Pope interferes--Fatal results for the Christians--Speech of Kang-Hi--Expulsion of the Jesuits--Concessions to Europeans in newly opened ports--Hatred of foreigners at Tien-tsin--Arrival of French nuns--Their mistakes in ignoring native feeling--Chinese children bought by the Abbé Chevrier--A Chinese merchant's views on the situation--Terrible accusations against the Sisters--Murder of the French Consul and his assistant--The Governor of Tien-tsin responsible--Massacre of the Abbé Chevrier and one hundred children--The Lady Superior and her nuns cut to pieces and burnt--The guilty Governor Chung-Ho sent to Paris as envoy--No proper vengeance exacted by the French--Other Sisters go to Tien-tsin.