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Afterwards, look over the one hundred and twenty stanzas of Lao T'u, in the heptameter rule; and next read a hundred or two hundred of the heptameter four-lined stanzas by Li Ch'ing-lieu. When you have, as a first step, digested these three authors, and made them your foundation, you can take T'ao Yuan-ming, Ying, Liu, Hsieh, Yuean, Yue, Pao and other writers and go through them once.
Ju-hai was at this date past forty; and had only had a son, who had died the previous year, in the third year of his age. Though he had several handmaids, he had not had the good fortune of having another son; but this was too a matter that could not be remedied. By his wife, nee Chia, he had a daughter, to whom the infant name of Tai Yue was given. She was, at this time, in her fifth year.
Its chiefs claimed to be descended from Yi, who appears in the Shu as the forester of Shun, and the assistant of the great Yue in his labours on the flood of Yao. the small territory of Khin, as an attached state.
Miao Yue replenished this cup and gave it to Tai-yue; and taking the green jade cup, which she had, on previous occasions, often used for her own tea, she filled it and presented it to Pao-yue. "'The rules observed in the world, the adage says, 'must be impartial," Pao-yue smiled. "But while my two cousins are handling those antique and rare gems, here am I with this coarse object!"
You too would be contaminated! If you give it to me, it will be all right." Miao Yue there and then directed some one to fetch it and to give it to Pao-yue. When it was brought, Pao-yue took charge of it. "Wait until we've gone out," he proceeded, "and I'll call a few servant-boys and bid them carry several buckets of water from the stream and wash the floors; eh, shall I?"
"Really," smiled old lady Chia, "it's those people, who devote themselves to an ascetic life and have nothing to do, who manage, by constant repairs, to make their places much nicer than those of others!" As she spoke, she wended her steps towards the Eastern hall. Miao Yue, with a face beaming with smiles, made way for her to walk in.
There was among them one, who played the lute so efficiently that she performed the part when the lute is heard in the 'Hsi Hsiang Chi, the piece on the lute in the 'Yue Ts'an Chi, and that in the supplementary 'P'i Pa Chi, on the Mongol flageolet with the eighteen notes, in every way as if she had been placed in the real circumstances herself. Yea, far better than this!"
"I don't care for 'Liu An' tea!" old lady Chia exclaimed. "I know it; but this is old 'Chuen Mei," Miao Yue answered with a smile. Dowager lady Chia received the cup. "What water is this?" she went on to inquire. "It's rain water collected last year;" Miao Yue added by way of reply. Old lady Chia readily drank half a cup of the tea; and smiling, she proffered it to goody Liu.
What time it strikes the cold, it's first joyful to smile at the east wind. When its spirit to the Yue Ling hath flown, 'tis hard to say 'tis spring. The russet clouds across the 'Lo Fu' lie, so e'en to dreams it's closed. The green petals add grace to a coiffure, when painted candles burn. The simple elf when primed with wine doth the waning rainbow bestride.
Yue Ch'uan-erh and every one present were highly amused. "You yourself," observed Yue Ch'uan-erh, "have been scalded, and do you keep on asking about myself?" At these words, Pao-yue became at last aware of the injury he had received. The servants rushed with all promptitude and cleared the mess. But Pao-yue was not inclined to touch any more food.
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