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"Why it was, in fact, no more than a green-faced and red-haired god of plagues." Pao-yue, at this answer, spat at him contemptuously. "You are, in very truth, a useless fool!" he cried. "Haven't you even enough gumption for such a trifling job as this?" "What book, I wonder, have you again been reading, master?" Pei Ming continued.

Upon turning his head round, he caught sight of Hsueeh P'an jump out, clapping his hands. "Hadn't I said that my uncle wanted you?" he laughed. "Would you ever have rushed out with such alacrity?" Pei Ming also laughed, and fell on his knees.

At the very mention of his father, Pao-yue felt suddenly as if struck by lightning. Regardless of everything and anything, he rushed, as fast as possible, back to his room, and changing his clothes, he came out into the garden. Here he discovered Pei Ming, standing at the second gateway, waiting for him. "Do you perchance know what he wants me for?" Pao-yue inquired. "Master, hurry out at once!"

But there are no sycee shears at hand, so, miss, put this piece aside and choose a smaller one." She Yueeh had already closed the press and walked out. "Who'll go and fumble about again?" she laughed. "If there's a little more, well, you take it and finish." "Be quick," Pao-yue remarked, "and tell Pei Ming to go for another doctor. It will be all right."

"It would be strange if you didn't, with this sort of things on, look like a very hedgehog!" "These three articles are a gift from the Prince of Pei Ching," Pao-yue answered. "Ordinarily, when it rains, he too wears this kind of outfit at home. But if it has taken your fancy, I'll have a suit made for you. There's nothing peculiar about the other things, but this hat is funny!

Kuan , going up to the edge of the well, lifted the stone with the same ease as he would a tile, took the meat, and made off. Chang Fei pursued him, and eventually the two came to blows, but no one dared to separate them. Just then Liu Pei, a hawker of straw shoes, arrived, interposed, and put a stop to the fight.

"The mission to Ku Su," he explained, "to find tutors, to purchase servant girls, and to obtain musical instruments, and theatrical properties and the like, my uncle has confided to me; and as I'm to take along with me the two sons of a couple of majordomos, and two companions of the family, besides, Tan P'ing-jen and Pei Ku-hsiu, he has, for this reason, enjoined me to come and see you, uncle."

"It's exactly about this that I meant to send Pei Ming to see you," Pao-yue added. "But it isn't often that one can manage to find you at home. I'm well aware how uncertain your movements are; one day you are here, and another there; you've got no fixed resort." "There's no need sending any one to hunt me up!" Liu Hsiang-lien replied.

The community of ideas which they found they possessed soon gave rise to a firm friendship between the three men. The Oath in the Peach-orchard Another account represents Liu Pei and Chang Fei as having entered a village inn to drink wine, when a man of gigantic stature pushing a wheelbarrow stopped at the door to rest.

It's on account of those affairs connected with Ch'i Kuan and that girl Chin Ch'uan." "How did these things come to master's knowledge?" inquired Hsi Jen. "As for that affair with Ch'i Kuan," continued Pei Ming, "it is very likely Mr.