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Updated: June 4, 2025
All the cousins heard the news outside. Tai-yue, previous to anything else, muttered a prayer to Buddha; while Pao-ch'ai laughed and said not a word. "Sister Pao," inquired Hsi Ch'un, "what are you laughing for?" "I laugh," replied Pao-ch'ai, "because the 'Thus-Come' Joss has more to do than any human being.
These taunts induced Chia Cheng to eventually withdraw out of the room. By this time, Mrs. Hsueeh together with Pao-ch'ai, Hsiang Ling, Hsi Jen, Shih Hsiang-yuen and his other cousins had also congregated in the apartments. Hsi Jen's heart was overflowing with grief; but she could not very well give expression to it.
Pao-ch'ai too then came forward, and picked up a double cup; but, after drinking a mouthful of it, she lay it aside, and, moistening her pen, she walked up to the wall, and marked off the first theme: "longing for chrysanthemums," below which she appended a character "Heng." "My dear cousin," promptly remarked Pao-yue. "I've already got four lines of the second theme so let me write on it!"
Pao-ch'ai gave them the necessary explanations. "My dear child," remarked old lady Chia, "do let her come and twist a few girdles for your cousin! And should you be in need of any one for anything, I have over at my place a whole number of servant-girls doing nothing! Out of them, you are at liberty to send for any you like to wait on you!" "We'll send her to plait them!" Mrs.
When Pao-ch'ai heard these words, she inwardly comprehended her meaning, and when she further heard Hsi Jen remark with a sigh: "Cousins may well be on intimate terms, but they should also observe some sort of propriety; and they shouldn't night and day romp together; and no matter how people may tender advice it's all like so much wind blowing past the ears."
As he spoke, he called out to the servant to go back, and rushing up to the table, he took a seat. Madame Wang faced Pao-ch'ai and her companions. "You, girls," she observed, "had better have your meal, and let him have his own way!" "It's only right that you should go," Pao-ch'ai smiled.
I don't see any reason why this shouldn't be practicable!" Pao-ch'ai was standing below contemplating the pictures with characters suspended on the walls. Upon hearing these suggestions, she readily nodded her head assentingly and smiled. "Excellent!" she cried. "'Within three years, there will be no more famines and dearths." "What a first-rate plan!" Li Wan chimed in.
Pao-ch'ai chimed in with a laugh. "What jibes!" exclaimed Tai-yue; "they're purely and simply the prattle of a mean mouth and vile tongue! They're enough to evoke people's displeasure!" Saying this, she went on to sputter in disgust. "Were you," insinuated lady Feng, "to become a wife in my family, what is there that you would lack?"
All you've got to do is to make suitable reply when we call you whatever takes our fancy." "I must however give you a name," Pao-ch'ai remarked. "There's a very vulgar name, but it's just the very thing for you. What is difficult to obtain in the world are riches and honours; what is not easy to combine with them is leisure.
Yet, why should this Pao-ch'ai step in again between us?" Besides, of late, I continuously feel confusion creep over my mind, so my disease must already have gradually developed itself.
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