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Hsueeh felt impelled, after the arguments she heard him propound, to deliberate with Pao-ch'ai. "If brother," Pao-ch'ai smilingly rejoined, "were in real earnest about gaining experience in some legitimate concerns, it would be well and good.
In the secret recesses of her heart, Mrs. Hsueeh on this account fell in also with her views. But ever since her youth up, she has seen much of the world, for she has been with her parent to every place of note. Her father was a man fond of pleasure; and as he had business in every direction, he took his family along with him.
Should inadvertently, at any moment, one give umbrage to persons of this status, why, not only office, but I fear even one's life, it would be difficult to preserve. That's why these lists are called office-philacteries. This Hsueeh family, just a while back spoken of, how could your worship presume to provoke?
Some time ago cousin Hsueeh P'an came over in person and asked me for pearls, and when I inquired of him what he wanted them for, he explained that they were intended to compound some medicine with; adding, in an aggrieved way, that it would have been better hadn't he taken it in hand for he never had any idea that it would involve such a lot of trouble!
"It's awful, awful!" he bawled out boisterously; "he should be fined, he should be made to pay a forfeit; there's no precious article whatever on this table; how is it then that you introduce precious things?" "There was nothing about precious things!" Chiang Yue-han vehemently explained. "What I are you still prevaricating?" Hsueeh P'an cried, "Well, repeat it again!"
"Just so!" retorted Hsueeh P'an, "but when you come to-morrow to congratulate me we'll consider what novel kind of present you can give me." "I've got nothing that I can give you," rejoined Pao-yue. "As far as money, clothes, eatables and other such articles go, they are not really mine: all I can call my own are such pages of characters that I may write, or pictures that I may draw."
Then asking a servant to fetch him a pencil, he wrote a couple of words on the palm of his hand. This done, he went on to inquire of Hsueeh. P'an: "Did you see correctly that it read Keng Huang?" "How could I not have seen correctly?" ejaculated Hsueeh P'an. Pao-yue thereupon unclenched his hand and allowed him to peruse, what was written in it.
Pao-yue then lifted a large cup and drained it with one draught. "We will now," he proposed, "dilate on the four characters, 'sad, wounded, glad and joyful. But while discoursing about young ladies, we'll have to illustrate the four states as well. Hsueeh P'an gave him no time to finish. He was the first to stand up and prevent him from proceeding.
But if you spare yourselves the least exertion, I shall be unhappy." When they heard this, Wen Kuan and her companions left the apartment and promptly apparelled themselves and mounted the stage. "I've verily seen several hundreds of companies," Mrs. Hsueeh smiled, "but never have I come across any that confined themselves to flutes." "There are some," dowager lady Chia answered.
"Hsueeh Yen," he kept on shouting, "quick, raise the portiere! Miss is come!" Tai-yue stopped short and rapped on the frame with her hand. "Have his food and water been replenished?" she asked.
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