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At these words, the whole company had a hearty laugh; after which, Tai-yue, at length, marked off a play; next in order following Pao-yue, Shih Hsiang-yuen, Ying-ch'un, T'an Ch'un, Hsi Ch'un, widow Li Wan, and the rest, each and all of whom made a choice of plays, which were sung in the costumes necessary for each.
"Do you also sometimes come to your wits' ends; and run to the end of your tether?" she went on to say. "I'd like to see what other stuff and nonsense you can come out with!" Hsiang-yuen however simply fell forward on Pao-ch'ai's lap and laughed incessantly.
"Who gave it to you?" inquired Shih Hsiang-yuen. "Miss Pao let me have it." replied Hsi Jen. "I was under the impression," remarked Hsiang-yuen with a sigh, "that it was a present from cousin Lin. But is it really cousin Pao, that gave it to you!
In the upper part of the room seated themselves, at one table dowager lady Chia, Chia Cheng, and Pao-yue; madame Wang, Pao-ch'ai, Tai-yue, Hsiang-yuen sat round another table, and Ying-ch'un, Tan-ch'un and Hsi Ch'un the three of them, occupied a separate table, and both these tables were laid in the lower part, while below, all over the floor, stood matrons and waiting-maids for Li Kung-ts'ai and Hsi-feng were both seated in the inner section of the Hall, at another table.
Hsiang-yuen added, with eager haste: Within the city walls at eve was hid a purple flag. Tai-yue with alacrity continued with a smile: The fragrance sweet, which penetrates into the plums, is good to eat. Pao-ch'ai smiled. "What a fine line!" she ejaculated; after which, she hastened to complete the couplet by saying: The drops from the bamboo are meet, when one is drunk, to mix with wine.
"If you've got any gumption about you," Pao-ch'ai exclaimed, shoving her up, "take the second rhymes under 'Hsiao' and exhaust them all, and I'll then bend the knee to you." "It isn't as if I were writing verses," Hsiang-yuen laughed rising to her feet; "it's really as if I were fighting for very life." "It's for you to come out with something," they all cried with a laugh.
Just you first think of one and let me see." Pao-ch'ai plunged in thought for a time, after which she laughingly remarked: "Dream of chrysanthemums is good." "It's positively good!" Hsiang-yuen smiled. "I've also got one: 'the Chrysanthemum shadow, will that do?"
"What's there in this that you can't tell me?" asked Ts'ui Lue, "But I know all about it, so there's no need for you to keep me on pins and needles." Hsiang-yuen blurted out laughing. "What do you know?" she said. "That you, Miss, are Yang, and that I'm Yin," answered Ts'ui Lue. Hsiang-yuen produced her handkerchief, and, while screening her mouth with it, burst out into a loud fit of laughter.
Lin Tai-yue, the fact is, was well aware that now that Shih Hsiang-yuen was staying in the mansion, Pao-yue too was certain to hasten to come and tell her all about the unicorn he had got, so she thought to herself: "In the foreign traditions and wild stories, introduced here of late by Pao-yue, literary persons and pretty girls are, for the most part, brought together in marriage, through the agency of some trifling but ingenious nick-nack.
Pao-yue alone however was such a hair-brained simpleton that he conjectured that the statements made by the four dames had been intended to flatter his grandmother Chia. But subsequently he betook himself into the garden to see how Shih Hsiang-yuen was getting on. "Compose your mind now," Shih Hsiang-yuen then said to him, "and go on with your larks!
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