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"The holy man says," Tai-yue smilingly rejoined, "that 'one must not be weary of exhorting people'; and if she comes, time and again, to ask me this and that how can I possibly not tell her?" "Let's take her to Miss Quarta's rooms," Li Wan smiled, "and if we could coax her to look at the painting, and bring her to her senses, it will be well."
"Where do you hail from?" "I was just leaving cousin Quarta's," Pao-yue laughed, "when I noticed you coming along, just in front of me; and knowing well enough that you were bent upon finding me, I concealed myself to have a lark with you. I saw you then go by, with uplifted head, enter the court, walk out again, and ask every one you met on your way; but there I stood convulsed with laughter.
"I went," Hsi Jen explained, "into Miss Quarta's rooms to see our Mr. Pao-yue, but, who'd have thought it, I got there a little too late, and they told me that he had gone home.
Where it's nice and warm is in your cousin Quarta's over there, so let's all go and see how she is getting on with her painting, and whether it will be ready or not by the end of the year." "How could it be completed by the close of the year?" they smiled. "She could only, we fancy, get it ready by the dragon boat festival next year." "This is dreadful!" old lady Chia exclaimed.
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