ll drink it, replied dame Chao, but you, my lady, must also have a cup: whats there to fear? the one thing to guard against is any excess, thats all! But Ive now come over, not for any wine or eatables; on the contrary, theres a serious matter, which I would ask your ladyship to impress on your mind, and to show me some regard, for this master of ours is only good to utter fine words, but when the time (to act) does come, he forgets all about us! As I have had the good fortune to nurse him in his infancy and to bring him up to this age, I too have grown old in years, I said to him, and all that belong to me are those two sons, and do look upon them with some particular favour! With any one else I shouldnt have ventured to open my mouth, but him I anyway entreated time and again on several occasions. His assent was of course well and good, but up to this very moment he still withholds his help. Now besides from the heavens has dropped such a mighty piece of good luck; and in what place will there be no need of servants? thats why I come to tell you, my lady, as is but right, for were I to depend upon our master, I fear I shall even die of starvation.
Lady Feng laughed. Youd better, she suggested, put those two elder foster brothers of his both under my charge! But youve nursed that foster-son from his babyhood, and dont you yet know that disposition of his, how that he takes his skin and flesh and sticks it, (not on the body of a relative), but, on the contrary, on that of an outsider and stranger? (to Chia Lien.) Which of those foster brothers whom you have now discarded, isnt clearly better than others? and were you to have shown them some favour and consideration, who would have ventured to have said don Instead of that, you confer benefits upon thorough strangers, and all to no purpose whatever! But these words of mine are also incorrect, eh? for those whom we regard as strangers you, contrariwise, will treat just as if they were relatives!
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