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Lin Tai-yue, the story goes, dwelt, after Ch'ing Wen's refusal, the previous night, to open the door, under the impression that the blame lay with Pao-yue.
"He doesn't want anything to eat," Lin Tai-yue replied; "he won't come with us, so I'll go ahead." So saying she promptly left the room. "I'll have my repast with my mother to-day," Pao-yue said. "Not at all," Madame Wang remarked, "not at all. I'm going to fast to-day, so it's only right and proper that you should go and have your own." "I'll also fast with you then," Pao-yue retorted.
"Father 'd have cowhided me anyway, I guess," he added, meditatively. "Do you call him father?" "Ah, father's at Laramie," said Billy, with disgust. "He'd not stop for your asking. Lin don't bother me much." "You quit talking and step up there!" ordered his guardian. "Well, m'm, I guess yu' can sleep good now in there." "If it was only an 'L. and N. I'd not have a thing against it!
"We've been long comin' to it, Lin, an' thet was for your sake," replied the other. Lin slowly pulled at his pipe and blew out the smoke as if reluctant to part with it. "Let's go on," he said, quietly. "No. I've had all I want of chasin' thet wild stallion," returned Bill, shortly. The other spread wide his hands and bent an expostulating look upon the one called Lin.
In the street, out of friends, out of Christmas, and left both ways, no tobaccer and no flapjacks. Now, Bill, what do yu' say to us putting up a Christmas deal together? Just you and me?" "I'd like that," said Billy. "Is it all day?" "I was thinkin' of all day," said Lin. "I'll not make yu' do anything yu'd rather not." "Ah, they can smoke without me," said Billy, with sudden acrimony.
"If the storm does not lin by sunrise," said Yaspard, "we must try and move him to the beach, and get him under shelter of the boat; we can turn her up, you know, and make a cosy place for him. It is so windy and disagreeable here." Alas! they had not dreamt that the tempest might "turn" the Osprey as easily as they could.
Th' official's rank in San Ch'i was but fixed when his coffin was closed Tell all people that upon earth do dwell to look down upon none. The bounty of one single bowl of rice should be treasured till death. On events of old in Kuang Lin: Cicadas chirp; crows roost; but, in a twinkle, they are gone. How fares these latter days the scenery in Sui T'i?
Within the enclosure a fire burned, and food was being prepared. At a word from the chief, the unfortunate Kai Lung found his hands seized and tied behind his back, while a second later a rough hemp rope was fixed round his neck, and the other end tied to an overhanging tree. Lin Yi smiled pleasantly and critically upon these preparations, and when they were complete dismissed his follower.
The representations of various kinds of events of antiquity were perfect, and in them were inserted all sorts of crackers. Lin Tai-yue was naturally of a weak disposition, so she could not stand the report of any loud intonation. Her grandmother Chia therefore clasped her immediately in her embrace. Mrs. Hsueeh, meanwhile, took Hsiang-yuen in her arms. "I'm not afraid," smiled Hsiang-yuen.
"Lucy, I'm a wild-horse hunter," he went on, thoughtfully, as if speaking to himself. "I never failed on a trail. I could track you over bare rock." "Lin, I'll leave a trail, so never fear," she replied. "But don't borrow trouble. You're always afraid for me. Look at the bright side. Dad seems to have forgotten you. Maybe it all isn't so bad as we thought.
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