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But how is he to know, except by the hardest, most meaningless, and distasteful toil of the memory, whether he is to write you, or yu, or yoo, or ewe, or yew, or yue, as in flue, or even yo as in do, and to determine when and in what cases respectively he is to use those different forms?
"It isn't nice, it isn't nice!" Pao-yue purposely exclaimed. "Omi-to-fu!" ejaculated Yue Ch'uan-erh. "If this isn't nice, what's nice?" "There's no flavour about it at all," resumed Pao-yue. "If you don't believe me taste it, and you'll find out for yourself." Yue Ch'uan-erh in a tantrum actually put some of it to her lips. "Well," laughed Pao-yue, "it is nice!"
With these words he produced it, and handed it over to Shih-yin. Shih-yin received it. On scrutiny he found it, in fact, to be a beautiful gem, so lustrous and so clear that the traces of characters on the surface were distinctly visible. The characters inscribed consisted of the four "T'ung Ling Pao Yue," "Precious Gem of Spiritual Perception."
Hsueeh would readily come over and converse, on one thing and another, with dowager lady Chia, or have a chat with madame Wang; while Pao-ch'ai came together, day after day, with Tai yue, Ying-ch'un, her sisters and the other girls, either to read, to play chess, or to do needlework, and the pleasure which they derived was indeed perfect.
"Is your mother all right," he forthwith inquired of Yue Ch'uan-erh. An angry scowl crept over Yue Ch'uan-erh's face. She did not even look straight at Pao-yue. And only after a long pause was it that she at last uttered merely the words, "all right," by way of reply. Pao-yue, therefore, found talking to her of little zest.
Yue Ch'uan-erh however would still not give him any; and she, at the same time, called to the servants to fetch what there was for him to eat. But the instant the waiting-maid put her foot into the room, servants came quite unexpectedly to deliver a message. "Two nurses," they said, "have arrived from the household of Mr. Fu, Secundus, to present his compliments. They have now come to see you, Mr.
"Albeit you have the stomach to tackle all it holds," Miao Yue laughed, "I haven't got so much tea for you to waste! Have you not heard how that the first cup is the 'taste'-cup; the second 'the stupid-thing-for- quenching-one's-thirst, and the third 'the drink-mule' cup? But were you now to go in for this huge cup, why what more wouldn't that be?"
"If we made him," Hsiang-yuen resumed, "versify on: 'In search of Miao Yue to beg for red plum blossom, won't it be full of fun?" "That will be full of zest," the party exclaimed, upon hearing the theme propounded by her.
From an early moment, the strains of flageolets and pipes, of song and of wind-instruments faintly fell on his ear. The moment he reached the passage on the opposite side, he discerned Yue Ch'uan-erh seated all alone under the eaves of the verandah giving way to tears. As soon as she became conscious of Pao-yue's arrival, she drew a long, long breath.
Marttha Stileman, about 10 fete fromm ye olde yue tre. Febevarie 6th, 1753." Mary Haygarthe, aged twentie sevene yeers, berrid under ye yue tree, Nov. 21, 1754." After copying these two entries, I went out into the churchyard to look for Mary Haygarth's grave.
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