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红楼梦Chapter22

　　Hes gone to sleep long ago! Hsi Jen replied.

　　At these words， Tai-yue felt inclined to betake herself back at once; but Hsi Jen smiled and said： Please stop， miss. Heres a slip of paper， and see what there is on it! and speedily taking what Pao-yue had written a short while back， she handed it over to Tai-yue to examine. Tai-yue， on perusal， discovered that Pao-yue had composed it， at the spur of the moment， when under the influence of resentment; and she could not help thinking it both a matter of ridicule as well as of reGREt; but she hastily explained to Hsi Jen： This is written for fun， and theres nothing of any consequence in it! and having concluded this remark， she readily took it along with her to her room， where she conned it over in company with Hsiang-yuen; handing it also the next day to Pao-chai to peruse. The burden of what Pao-chai read was：

　　In what was no concern of mine， I should to thee have paid no heed， For while I humour this， that one to please I dont succeed! Act as thy wish may be! go， come wheneer thou list; tis naught to me. Sorrow or joy， without limit or bound， to indulge thou art free! What is this hazy notion about relatives distant or close? For what purpose have I for all these days racked my heart with woes? Even at this time when I look back and think， my mind no pleasure knows.

　　After having finished its perusal， she went on to glance at the Buddhistic stanza， and smiling： This being， she soliloquised; has awakened to a sense of perception; and all through my fault， for its that ballad of mine yesterday which has incited this! But the subtle devices in all these rationalistic books have a most easy tendency to unsettle the natural disposition， and if to-morrow he does actually get up， and talk a lot of insane trash， wont his having fostered this idea owe its origin to that ballad of mine; and shant I have become the prime of all guilty people?