What is it? promptly inquired madame Hsing and the rest.
My aunts, Chia Chen replied with all haste, you surely are aware that your grandsons wife is now no more; your nephews wife is also laid up unwell, and, as I see that things in the inner apartments are really not what they should properly be, I would trouble my worthy eldest cousin to undertake in here the direction of affairs for a month; and if she does, my mind will be set at ease.
Madame Hsing smiled. Is it really about this that youve come? she asked; your eldest cousin is at present staying with your aunt Secunda, and all you have to do is to speak to her and it will be all right.
How ever could a mere child like her, speedily remonstrated madame Wang, carry out all these matters? and shouldnt she manage things properly, she will, on the contrary, make people laugh, so it would therefore be better that you should trouble some one else.
What your ideas are, aunt, rejoined Chia Chen smiling, your nephew has guessed; youre afraid lest my eldest cousin should have to bear fatigue and annoyance; for as to what you say, that she cannot manage things, why my eldest cousin has, from her youth up, ever been in her romping and playing so firm and decided; and now that she has entered the married estate, and has the run of affairs in that mansion, she must have reaped so much the more experience, and have become quite an old hand! Ive been thinking these last few days that outside my eldest cousin, theres no one else who could come to my help; and, aunt, if you dont do it for the face of your nephew and your nephews wife, do it, at least, for the affection you bore to her who is no more.
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