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With this proposal, she laid hold of a cup and offered it to Mrs. Hsueeh. Turning also towards Hsiang-yuen and Pao-ch'ai: "You two cousins!" she added, "must also have a cup. Your cousin Lin can't take much wine, but even she mustn't be let off." While pressing them, she drained her cup. Hsiang-yuen, Pao-ch'ai and Tai-y ue then had their drink.
After a while, they parted; and when evening came Hsiang-yuen directed Ts'ui Lue to pack up her clothes. "What's the hurry?" Ts'ui Lue asked. "There will be ample time to pack up, on the day on which we go!" "We'll go to-morrow," Hsiang-yuen rejoined; "for what's the use of remaining here any longer to look at people's mouths and faces?" Pao-yue, at these words, lost no time in pressing forward.
The various inmates noticed in what a serious and sedate manner she narrated her story, and none ventured to pass any further remarks, but waited anxiously for her to go on, when they became aware that she coldly and drily came to a stop. Shih Hsiang-yuen stared at her for ever so long. "I'll tell you another," lady Feng laughingly remarked.
"With weather like this," smiled Pao-ch'ai, "even visitors afford no amusement! Why don't they, while this fiery temperature lasts, stay at home, where it's much cooler, instead of gadding about all over the place?" "Could you tell them so?" smiled Hsi Jen. "What was that girl Hsiang-yuen doing in your quarters?" Pao-ch'ai then asked. "She only came to chat with us on irrelevant matters."
"Had she ever talked such stuff and nonsense, I would have long ago become chilled towards her." "What you say is all trash!" Hsi Jen and Hsiang-yuen remarked with one voice, while they shook their heads to and fro and smiled.
Shih Hsiang-yuen had a crab to bear the others company, but no sooner had she done than she retired to a lower seat, from where she helped her guests. When she, however, walked out a second time to give orders to fill two dishes and send them over to Mrs. Chao, she perceived lady Feng come up to her again. "You're not accustomed to entertaining," she said, "so go and have your share to eat.
"Senior cousin, Shih Hsiang-yuen," chimed in Pao-ch'ai, a smile playing on her lips, "has one, but it's a trifle smaller than this." "Is it indeed Yuen-erh who has it?" exclaimed old lady Chia. "Now that she lives in our house," remarked Pao-yue, "how is it that even I haven't seen anything of it?"
"This," they exclaimed, with one consent, "is not writing verses on the begonia for no purpose! We must really start a Begonia Society!" "To-morrow," Shih Hsiang-yuen proposed, "first fine me by making me stand a treat, and letting me be the first to convene a meeting; may I?" "This would be far better!" they all assented.
"First quit the room," Tai-yue suggested, "and let us get up!" Pao-yue thereupon made his exit into the ante-chamber, and Tai-yue jumped out of bed, and awoke Hsiang-yuen.
Pao-ch'ai was also aware of the fact, but she simply nodded her head assentingly and did not say who it was. Pao-yue likewise expressed his assent by shaking his head, but he too did not presume to speak out. Shih Hsiang-yuen, however, readily took up the conversation. "He resembles," she interposed, "cousin Lin's face!"
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