Hsi Jen immediately picked up the hair-pin, as she remarked: Whats up with you at this early hour of the morning? Whether you listen or not is of no consequence; and is it worth while that you should behave as you do?
How can you know, Pao-yue answered, the anguish in my heart!
Do you also know what anguish means? Hsi Jen observed laughing; if you do, then you can judge what the state of my heart is! But be quick and get up, and wash your face and be off!
As she spoke, they both got out of bed and performed their toilette; but after Pao-yue had gone to the drawing rooms, and at a moment least expected by any one, Tai-yue walked into his apartment. Noticing that Pao-yue was not in, she was fumbling with the books on the table and examining them, when, as luck would have it, she turned up the Chuang Tzu of the previous day. Upon perusing the passage tagged on by Pao-yue, she could not help feeling both incensed and amused. Nor could she restrain herself from taking up the pen and appending a stanza to this effect:
Who is that man, who of his pen, without good rhyme, made use, A toilsome task to do into the Chuang-tzu text to steal, Who for the knowledge he doth lack no sense of shame doth feel, But language vile and foul employs third parties to abuse?
At the conclusion of what she had to write, she too came into the drawing room; but after paying her respects to dowager lady Chia, she walked over to madame Wangs quarters.
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