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Updated: May 2, 2025
"In our home," smiled Hsiang-yuen, "there exist, it is true, at present several halls and structures, but as I don't live in either, there'll be no fun in it were I to borrow the name of any one of them!" "Our venerable senior just said," Pao-ch'ai observed laughingly, "that there was also in your home a water-pavilion called 'leaning on russet clouds hall, and is it likely that it wasn't yours?
laughingly observed Puo-ch'ai, "likewise bring out the idea of 'pinning the chrysanthemums in the hair' so thoroughly that one couldn't get a loop hole for fault-finding." Hsiang-yuen then smiled. "...who is meet with you to stay'" she said, "and "...burst the last in bloom. "are questions so straight to the point set to the chrysanthemums, that they are quite at a loss what answer to give."
"It's only a few minutes," Madame Wang said, "since our venerable senior called that one to task, and now here he comes and refers to names and surnames!" "Your cousin Pao," ventured Lin Tai-yue, "has something good, which he has been waiting to give you." "What good thing is it?" asked Hsiang-yuen. "Do you believe what she says?" observed Pao-yue laughingly.
While indulging in these regrets, her eyes got quite red. "Never mind! never mind!" interposed Pao-yue. "Why need you speak of these things!" "If I do allude to this," answered Shih Hsiang-yuen, "what does it matter? I know that weak point of yours. You're in fear and trembling lest your cousin Lin should come to hear what I say, and get angry with me again for eulogising cousin Pao!
"Go to my place," she observed, "and tell her that a foreign beauty has come over, who's a splendid hand at poetry. Hsiao Lo gave a smile, and went away. After a long time, they heard Hsiang-yuen laughingly inquire, "What foreign beauty has come?" But while asking this question, she made her appearance in company with Hsiang Ling.
"It must have dropped," Hsiang-yuen added, "when you went out of doors, and been picked up by some one when you were off your guard; and he's now, instead of you, the richer for it."
Hsiang-yuen, after a few moments of abstraction, urged Hsi Jen and the other girls to help themselves to anything they wanted, and beckoned to the servants, seated at the foot of the hill, to eat to their heart's content. Tan Ch'un, in company with Li Wan and Hsi Ch'un, stood meanwhile under the shade of the weeping willows, and looked at the widgeons and egrets.
Pao-yue was, at the moment, enjoying the intense pleasure of watching the three girls Pao-ch'ai, Pao-ch'in and Tai-yue make a joint onslaught on Hsiang-yuen, so that he had of course not given his mind to tagging any antithetical verses. But when he now felt Tai-yue push him he at length chimed in with: The fir is the sole tree which is decreed for ever to subsist.
As soon as Lin Tai-yue became conscious of the situation, she immediately slipped out of sight, and stopping her mouth with one hand, as she did not venture to laugh aloud, she waved her other hand and beckoned to Hsiang-yuen. The moment Hsiang-yuen saw the way she went on, she concluded that she must have something new to impart to her, and she approached her with all promptitude.
"If you by and bye also lose your seal, will you likely banish it at once from your mind, and never make an effort to discover it?" "After all," smiled Pao-yue, "the loss of a seal is an ordinary occurrence. But had I lost this, I would have deserved to die." Hsi Jen then poured a cup of tea and handed it to Shih Hsiang-yuen.
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