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"This is indeed evidence of the great bounty of the present Emperor!" lady Feng observed smirkingly; "one doesn't hear in books, or see in plays, written from time to time, any mention of such an instance, even so far back as the days of old!" Dame Chao took up again the thread of the conversation.
"Your remarks are, sister-in-law, incorrect, for I'm none of this kind!" Chia Jui explained smirkingly. "How many like you can there be!" rejoined lady Feng with a sarcastic smile; "in ten, not one even could be picked out!" When Chia Jui heard these words, he felt in such high glee that he rubbed his ears and smoothed his cheeks.
I raged at your incessant pretensions to gentility because I knew you to be so much more than a gentleman. Oh, it infuriated me how long ago it was! to see you cringing to the Court blockheads, and running their errands, and smirkingly pocketing their money, and wheedling them into helping the new play to success.
When he had done, he perceived that Hsiang-yuen had already finished combing her hair, and speedily coming up to her, he put on a smile, and said: "My dear cousin, comb my hair for me!" "This can't be done!" Hsiang-yuen objected. "My dear cousin," Pao-yue continued smirkingly, "how is it that you combed it for me in former times?" "I've forgotten now how to comb it!" Hsiang-yuen replied.
"You'd better be going home now," Pao-yue suggested smirkingly; "where I've again kept something good for you." "Gently," smiled Hsi Jen, "for were you to let them hear, what figure would we cut?" And with these, words, she put out her hand and unclasping from Pao-yue's neck the jade of Spiritual Perception, she faced her cousins and remarked exultingly.
But as they were talking, they saw Hsiang Ling draw near smirkingly, and Chou Jui's wife at once seized her by the hand, and after minutely scrutinizing her face for a time, she turned round to Chin Ch'uan-erh and smiled. "With these features she really resembles slightly the style of lady Jung of our Eastern Mansion." "So I too maintain!" said Chin Ch'uan-erh.
Every one admits that the several stanzas you recently composed were superior to those of the whole company put together; but you must, after the good luck you've had to-day, give us a tip!" "I'll give each one of you a tiao," Pao-yue rejoined smirkingly. "Who of us hasn't seen a tiao?" they all exclaimed, "let's have that purse of yours, and have done with it!"
P'ing Erh understood its import, and taking at once the hair, she concealed it in her sleeve, and there and then came over into the room on this side, where she produced the hair, and smirkingly asked Chia Lien, "What's this?"
He bent over her smirkingly and patronizingly the while he made as if to rummage in his white waistcoat pocket for a card. At the same moment Cowperwood and Braxmar, realizing quite clearly the import of his words, were on their feet. While Mrs. "What is the trouble here? What has he done?" they demanded.
"Do put it away, please," Chia Lien entreated smirkingly, "and don't, on an any account, let her know about it!" and as he uttered these words, he noticed that she was off her guard, and, with a snatch, readily grabbed it adding laughingly: "In your hands, it would be a source of woe, so that it's better that I should burn it, and have done with it!"