Brother Jung Erh, exclaimed lady Feng, wait a moment. How is your wife getting on? how is she, after all, to-day?
Not well, replied Chia Jung. But were you, aunt, on your return to go in and see her, you will find out for yourself.
Chia Jung forthwith left the room. During this interval, Mrs. Yu addressed herself to mesdames Hsing and Wang; My ladies, she asked, will you have your repast in here, or will you go into the garden for it? There are now in the garden some young actors engaged in making their preparations?
Its better in here, madame Wang remarked, as she turned towards madame Hsing.
Mrs. Yu thereupon issued directions to the married women and matrons to be quick in serving the eatables. The servants, in waiting outside the door, with one voice signified their obedience; and each of them went off to fetch what fell to her share. In a short while, the courses were all laid out, and Mrs. Yu pressed mesdames Hsing and Wang, as well as her mother, into the upper seats; while she, together with lady Feng and Pao-yue, sat at a side table.
Weve come, observed mesdames Hsing and Wang, with the original idea of paying our congratulations to our venerable senior on the occasion of his birthday; and isnt this as if we had come for our own birthdays?
the old gentleman, answered lady Feng, is a man fond of a quiet life; and as he has already consummated a process of purification, he may well be looked upon as a supernatural being, so that the purpose to which your ladyships have given expression may be considered as manifest to his spirit, upon the very advent of the intention.
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