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"My dear cousin," remarked Hsueeh P'an vehemently, "the primary idea I had in view was to ask you to come out a moment sooner and I forgot to respectfully shun the expression. But by and bye, when you wish to chaff me, just you likewise allude to my father, and we'll thus be square." "Ai-ya!" exclaimed Pao-yue.
"Ai-ya;" she ejaculated, clapping her hands and laughing. "I never expected anything of the sort; we merely said that we ladies were coming for a leisurely stroll and people imagined that we were spreading a sumptuous altar with lenten viands and came to bring us offerings! But it's all our old lady's fault for bruiting it about! Why, we haven't even got any slips of paper with tips ready."
Pao's rooms," answered Hsiao Hung. "Ai-ya!" ejaculated lady Feng, as soon as she heard these words. "Are you really in Pao-yue's rooms! How strange! Yet it comes to the same thing. Well, if he asks for you, I'll tell him where you are.
Ch'ing Wen coughed and coughed time after time, so it was only after extreme difficulty that she succeeded in completing what she had to patch. "It's mended, it's true," she remarked, "but it does not, after all, look anything like it. Yet, I cannot stand the effort any more!" As she shouted 'Ai-ya, she lost control over herself, and dropped down upon the bed.
Saying this, he searched and searched about his person. After a long interval, "Ai-ya!" he ejaculated. "Have you perchance put that thing away?" he eagerly asked Hsi Jen. "What thing?" inquired Hsi Jen. "The unicorn," explained Pao-yue, "I got the other day." "You've daily worn it about you, and how is it you ask me?" remarked Hsi Jen.
"Ai-ya!" was the reply she heard; "our minds are merely bent upon talking, but some one might come and quietly listen from outside; wouldn't it be as well to push all the venetians open. Any one seeing us in here will then imagine that we are simply chatting about nonsense. Besides, should they approach, we shall be able to observe them, and at once stop our conversation!"
And forthwith laying hold of Lin Tai-yue, she pushed her back and then trudged away, along with Li Kung-ts'ai. During this time, Pao-yue clasped Tai-yue's hand in his. He did nothing than smile. But not a word did he utter. Tai-yue naturally, therefore, got crimson in the face, and struggled to escape his importunities. "Ai-ya!" exclaimed Pao-yue. "How my head is sore!"
But what's the use of your asking me about them? The lower part of my body is so very sore! Do look and see where I'm bruised!" At these words, Hsi Jen put out her hand, and inserting it gently under his clothes, she began to pull down the middle garments. She had but slightly moved them, however, when Pao-yue ground his teeth and groaned "ai-ya." Hsi Jen at once stayed her hand.
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