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Updated: May 3, 2025
"I'll give twenty taels!" old lady Chia was the first to say with a smile playing round her lips. "I'll follow your lead, dear senior," Mrs. Hsueeh smiled, "and also subscribe twenty taels." "We don't presume to place ourselves on an equal footing with your ladyship," Mesdames Hsing and Wang pleaded. "We, of course, come one degree lower; each of us therefore will contribute sixteen taels."
But at a later period, he succeeded, by ultimately finding in him some shortcoming, and deporting him to a far-away place, in setting his fears at rest. But we will put Yue-ts'un on one side, and refer to the young man Hsueeh, who purchased Ying Lien, and assaulted Feng Yuan to death.
Pao-yue had no help but to assent, and descending from the hall, he went off all alone to give himself up to reflection. Of the three Ying Ch'un, T'an Ch'un, and Hsi Ch'un, T'an Ch'un must be considered to have also been above the standard of her sisters, but she, in her own estimation, imagined it, in fact, difficult to compete with Hsueeh Pao-ch'ai and Lin Tai-yue.
While she was speaking, Hsi Hsueeh brought in tea, and Pao-yue pressed his cousin Lin to have a cup. "Miss Lin has gone long ago," observed all of them, as they burst out laughing, "and do you offer her tea?" Pao-yue drank about half a cup, when he also suddenly bethought himself of some tea, which had been brewed in the morning.
"Why should he be fined?" demurred the party. "Because," retorted Hsueeh P'an, "what he says is entirely unintelligible to me. So how can he not be fined?" Yuen Erh gave him a pinch. "Just you quietly think of yours," she laughed; "for if by and bye you are not ready you'll also have to bear a fine." In due course Pao-yue took up the guitar.
Chia Chen inquired with a smile. "Even with one thousand taels in hand," explained Hsueeh P'an laughingly, "I feel sure you wouldn't find any place, where you could buy the like. Why ask about price? if you just give the workmen a few taels for their labour, it will be quite sufficient."
These taunts induced Chia Cheng to eventually withdraw out of the room. By this time, Mrs. Hsueeh together with Pao-ch'ai, Hsiang Ling, Hsi Jen, Shih Hsiang-yuen and his other cousins had also congregated in the apartments. Hsi Jen's heart was overflowing with grief; but she could not very well give expression to it.
Hsueeh Pan, meanwhile, became aware of his departure, and felt at last relieved in his mind. Yet his conscience pricked him for he saw that he should not misjudge people. He then made an effort to raise himself, but the racking torture he experienced all over his limbs was so sharp that he could with difficulty bear it.
At these words, Chia Lien speedily adjusted his clothes, and left the apartment; and during his absence, lady Feng inquired of P'ing Erh what Mrs. Hsueeh wanted a few minutes back, that she sent Hsiang Ling round in such a hurry. "What Hsiang Ling ever came?" replied P'ing Erh. "I simply made use of her name to tell a lie for the occasion.
"Lady Hsueeh," she said, "has sent sister Hsiang Ling over to ask me something; but I've already given her my answer and sent her back." "Quite so," interposed Chia Lien with a smile. "A short while ago I went to look up Mrs.
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