Pao-chai harboured fears lest, on this occasion, Pao-yue should call him to book, and put him out of face, and she there and then lost no time in taking Chia Huans part with a view to screening him.
In this felicitous first moon what are you blubbering for? Pao-yue inquired, if this place isnt nice, why then go somewhere else to play. But from reading books, day after day, youve studied so much that youve become quite a dunce. If this thing, for instance, isnt good, that must, of course, be good, so then discard this and take up that, but is it likely that by sticking to this thing and crying for a while that it will become good? You came originally with the idea of reaping some fun, and youve instead provoked yourself to displeasure, and isnt it better then that you should be off at once.
Chia Huan upon hearing these words could not but come back to his quarters; and Mrs. Chao noticing the frame of mind in which he was felt constrained to inquire: Where is it that youve been looked down upon by being made to fill up a hole, and being trodden under foot?
I was playing with cousin Pao-chai, Chia Huan readily replied, when Ying Erh insulted me, and deprived me of my money, and brother Pao-yue drove me away.
Tsui! exclaimed Mrs. Chao, who bade you (presume so high) as to get up into that lofty tray? You low and barefaced thing! What place is there that you cant go to and play; and who told you to run over there and bring upon yourself all this shame?
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