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红楼梦Chapter18

Dont you yet hurry to go on， Pao-chai again observed in a gentle tone of voice sneeringly， but keep on calling me elder sister and younger sister? Whos your sister? that one over there in a yellow coat is your sister!

But apprehending， as she bandied these jokes， lest she might be wasting his time， she felt constrained to promptly move away; whereupon Pao-yue continued the ode he had been working at， and brought it to a close， writing in all three stanzas.

Tai-yue had not had so far an opportunity of making a display of her ability， and was feeling at heart in a very dejected mood; but when she perceived that Pao-yue was having intense trouble in conceiving what he had to write， and she found， upon walking up to the side of the table， that he had only one stanza short， that on the sign on the apricot tree is visible， she consequently bade him copy out clean the first three odes， while she herself composed a stanza， which she noted down on a slip of paper， rumpled up into a ball， and threw just in front of Pao-yue.

As soon as Pao-yue opened it and glanced at it， he realised that it was a hundred times better than his own three stanzas， and transcribing it without loss of time， in a bold writing， he handed up his compositions.