Scarcely had she time to conclude what she had to say when a youth, on duty at the second gate, transmitted the announcement that Mr. Chia Cheng was in the Library waiting for Mr. Secundus. At these words, Chia Lien speedily adjusted his clothes, and left the apartment; and during his absence, lady Feng inquired of Ping Erh what Mrs. Hsueeh wanted a few minutes back, that she sent Hsiang Ling round in such a hurry.
What Hsiang Ling ever came? replied Ping Erh. I simply made use of her name to tell a lie for the occasion. Tell me, my lady, (whats come to) Wang Erhs wife? why shes got so bad that theres even no common sense left in her! Saying this she again drew near lady Fengs side, and in a soft tone of voice, she continued: That interest of yours, my lady, she doesnt send later, nor does she send it sooner; but she must send it round the very moment when master Secundus is at home! But as luck would have it, I was in the hall, so that I came across her; otherwise, she would have walked in and told your ladyship, and Mr. Secundus would naturally have come to know about it! And our master would, with that frame of mind of his, have fished it out and spent it, had the money even been at the bottom of a pan full of oil! and were he to have heard that my lady had private means, would he not have been still more reckless in spending? Hence it was that, losing no time in taking the money over, I had to tell her a few words which, who would have thought, happened to be overheard by your ladyship; thats why, in the presence of master Secundus, I simply explained that Hsiang Ling had come!
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