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And as I work away every night, won't it be better for me to have an extra person with me?" "Quite so!" smiled Mrs. Hsueeh, "I forgot that! I should have told her to go with you; it's but right.
"I haven't yet worn out all the clothes I have," Pao-ch'ai explained, "and why should I have more made?" But, in a little time, Mrs. Hsueeh effected the change in her costume, and hand in hand with Pao-ch'ai, she started on her way to the garden. Hsueeh P'an thereupon took his departure. During this while, Mrs. Hsueeh and Pao-ch'ai trudged in the direction of the garden to look up Pao-yue.
Pao-yue upon hearing this, dashed the cup he held in his hand on the ground, and as it broke into small fragments, with a crash, it spattered Hsi Hsueeh's petticoat all over. "Of whose family is she the mistress?" inquired Pao-yue of Hsi Hsueeh, as he jumped up, "that you all pay such deference to her.
But we must now have something new. Tell Fang Kuan to sing us the 'Hsuen Meng' ballad; and let only flutes and Pandean pipes be used. The other instruments can be dispensed with." "Your venerable ladyship is quite right," Wen Kuan smiled. "Our acting couldn't, certainly, suit the taste of such people as Mrs. Hsueeh, Mrs. Li and the young ladies.
The young maiden Hsueeh Pao-ch'in devises, in novel style, odes bearing on antiquities. A stupid doctor employs, in reckless manner, drugs of great strength.
"The Hsueeh family have plenty of money, so that if your Worship adjudicates that they should pay five hundred, they can afford it, or one thousand will also be within their means; and this sum can be handed to the Feng family to meet the outlay of burning incense and burial expenses. But may it please your worship to consider carefully this plan and see what you think of it?"
"Whom would you go and beat? come first and assail me?" From excitement Hsueeh P'an's eyes protruded like copper bells. "What are you up to," he vociferated, "that you won't let me go where I please, and that you deliberately go on calumniating me?
Yuen Erh proceeded: "When her mother beats and scolds her and never for an instant doth desist." "It was only the other day," interposed Hsueeh P'an, "that I saw your mother and that I told her that I would not have her beat you." "If you still go on babbling," put in the company with one consent, "you'll be fined ten cups." Hsueeh P'an promptly administered himself a slap on the mouth.
Hsiang Ling assented, and brought from the other side a small embroidered silk box. "These," explained "aunt" Hsueeh, "are a new kind of flowers, made in the palace. They consist of twelve twigs of flowers of piled gauze. I thought of them yesterday, and as they will, the pity is, only get old, if uselessly put away, why not give them to the girls to wear them in their hair!
Perceiving that Chin Ch'uan-erh was still sunning herself outside, Chou Jui's wife asked her: "Isn't this Hsiang Ling, the waiting-maid that we've often heard of as having been purchased just before the departure of the Hsueeh family for the capital, and on whose account there occurred some case of manslaughter or other?" "Of course it's she," replied Chin Ch'uan.
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