Brother Ching, speedily exclaimed Pao-yue, Pao-yue is here! But though he shouted out two or three consecutive times, Chin Chung did not heed him.
Pao-yue has come! Pao-yue went on again to cry. But Chin Chungs spirit had already departed from his body, leaving behind only a faint breath of superfluous air in his lungs.
He had just caught sight of a number of recording devils, holding a warrant and carrying chains, coming to seize him, but Chin Chungs soul would on no account go along with them; and remembering how that there was in his home no one to assume the direction of domestic affairs, and feeling concerned that Chih Neng had as yet no home, he consequently used hundreds of arguments in his entreaties to the recording devils; but alas! these devils would, none of them, show him any favour. On the contrary, they heaped invectives upon Chin Chung.
Youre fortunate enough to be a man of letters, they insinuated, and dont you know the common saying that: if the Prince of Hell call upon you to die at the third watch, who can presume to retain you, a human being, up to the fifth watch? In our abode, in the unseen, high as well as low, have all alike a face made of iron, and heed not selfish motives; unlike the mortal world, where favouritism and partiality prevail. There exist therefore many difficulties in the way (to our yielding to your wishes)。
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