The Grandmaster has revived my interest in Mandarin, hence the memory of this imaginary one-sided exchange in English. The four ejaculations demonstrate one by one and in order the tones of proper Mandarin.
Here is the full sequence: Well …. What? Really? Damn!
First, steady high: Well … Second, rising: What? Third, quick fall and then rising: Really? Fourth, falling: Damn!
My thanks to the daughter of a distinguished professor of English at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, a specialist in Ruskin. She shared this tone-trick with me at a lush West Lake banquet her father was hosting for our delegation.