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With deprecating firmness Lin directed Shen Heng's reluctant eyes to another line the unfortunate exaction of fifty taels in return for the guarantee that the robe should be permeated with the spirit of rejuvenation.
As the undoubted embroiderer of the robe one Min of the family of Hsi had admittedly Passed Beyond almost with the last stitch, it was evident that she could only have conveyed by her touch an entirely contrary emanation. The hint arrested Shen Heng's fingers in the act of tearing out a handful of his beautiful pigtail.
"But be warned by the precept: 'Do not burn down your house in order to inconvenience even your chief wife's mother. Sooner or later a relation of Shen Heng's will turn his steps towards your inner office. You can then, without undue effort, impose on him the thousand taels that you have suffered loss from those of his house.
In the detail of the transference of actual sums of money Wang Ho walks hand in hand with himself from door to door. The pieces of silver are by this time beneath the floor of Shen Heng's inner chamber." "Shen Heng?" "The merchant in silk and costly fabrics, who lives beneath the sign of the Golden Abacus. It was from him " "Truly.
Indescribable was the bitterness of Shen Heng's throat when Cheng Lin unfolded his burden and revealed the Wang Ho thousand-tael burial robe, with an unassuming request for the return of the purchase money, either in gold or honourable paper, as the article was found unsuitable.
Bowing repeatedly and modestly expressing himself to the effect that it was incredible that he was not justly struck dead before the sublime spectacle of Shen Heng's virtuous indignation, Cheng Lin carefully produced the written lines of the agreement, gently directing the Distinguished Brother's fire-kindling eyes to an indicated detail.
Shih Hêng's plan became known before long, and he himself was beheaded . The next forty years were filled with struggles between cliques, which steadily grew in ferocity, particularly since a special office, a sort of secret police headquarters, was set up in the palace, with functions which it extended beyond the palace, with the result that many people were arrested and disappeared.
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