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Updated: September 18, 2025
"They haven't as yet been apportioned!" the matrons responded. "They're kept in here until they can be given in a lump to them to eat!" "They can't get through so many things!" Yuean Yang resumed. "You had as well therefore choose two bowls and send them over to that girl P'ing, in your mistress Secundus' rooms." "She has had her repast long ago." lady Feng put in.
Into one of these boats, they helped old lady Chia, Madame Wang, Mrs. Hsueeh, old goody Liu, Yuean Yang, and Yue Ch'uan-Erh. Last in order Li Wan followed on board. But lady Feng too stepped in, and standing up on the bow, she insisted upon punting. Dowager lady Chia, however, remonstrated from her seat in the bottom of the boat.
"What has your ladyship come out again for?" they inquired. "Do let us also enjoy a little peace and quiet!" "This chit Yuean Yang is worse than ever!" lady Feng laughed. "Here I'm slaving away for you, and, instead of feeling grateful to me, you bear me a grudge! But don't you yet quick pour me a cup of wine?" Yuean Yang immediately smiled, and filling a cup, she applied it to lady Feng's lips.
"Fetch that marble pot with scenery on it," she said to her; "that gauze screen, and that tripod of transparent stone with black streaks, which you'll find in there, and lay out all three on this table. They'll be ample! Bring likewise those ink pictures and white silk curtains, and change these curtains." Yuean Yang expressed her obedience.
Pao-yue had caught every word that had fallen from their lips a few minutes back, and felt, indeed, at heart so much distressed on Yuean Yang's behalf, that throwing himself silently on his bed, he left the three girls in the outer rooms to prosecute their chat and laugh. On the other side of the compound, Madame Hsing about this time inquired of lady Feng who Yuean Yang's father was.
This remark amused dowager lady Chia and Mrs. Hsueeh. But presently Yuean Yang arrived, and seated herself below her old mistress. After Yuean Yang sat lady Feng. The red cloth was then spread; the cards were shuffled; the dealer was decided upon and the quintet began to play.
Her brother then had no course but to lay before her Chia She's proposal, and all his promises that she would occupy an honourable position, and that she would be a secondary wife, with control in the house; but Yuean Yang was so persistent in her refusal that her brother was quite nonplussed and he was compelled to return, and inform Chia She. Chia She flew into a dreadful passion.
Your Worship can give out that the divining spirit has declared: 'that the deceased, Feng Yuean, and Hsueeh P'an had been enemies in a former life, that having now met in the narrow road, their destinies were consummated; that Hsueeh P'an has, by this time, contracted some indescribable disease and perished from the effects of the persecution of the spirit of Feng. That as the calamity had originated entirely from the action of the kidnapper, exclusive of dealing with the kidnapper according to law, the rest need not be interfered with, and so on.
This reply evoked further laughter from the whole company. "Altogether, it's a twig of flowers," Yuean Yang added laughing. "The flower dropped, and a huge melon formed." old goody Liu observed, while gesticulating with both her hands by way of illustration. The party once more exploded in loud merriment.
"What can it be that it's so pressing?" they said with a smile. "We were engaged in guessing puns here, so let's find out this, before you go." "What do you want to tell me?" Yuan Yang inquired. "Speak out!" "Follow me!" her sister-in-law laughed. "When we get over there, I'll tell you. It's really some good tidings!" "Is it perchance what Madame Hsing has told you?" Yuean Yang asked.
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