Chia Chus wife, nee Li, served the eatables, while Hsi-feng placed the chopsticks, and madame Wang brought the soup in. Dowager lady Chia was seated all alone on the divan, in the main part of the apartment, on the two sides of which stood four vacant chairs.
Hsi-feng at once drew Tai-yue, meaning to make her sit in the foremost chair on the left side, but Tai-yue steadily and concedingly declined.
Your aunts and sisters-in-law, standing on the right and left, dowager lady Chia smilingly explained, wont have their repast in here, and as youre a guest, its but proper that you should take that seat.
then alone it was that Tai-yue asked for permission to sit down, seating herself on the chair.
Madame Wang likewise took a seat at old lady Chias instance; and the three cousins, Ying Chun and the others, having craved for leave to sit down, at length came forward, and Ying Chun took the first chair on the right, Tan Chun the second, and Hsi Chun the second on the left. Waiting maids stood by holding in their hands, flips and finger-bowls and napkins, while Mrs. Li and lady Feng, the two of them, kept near the table advising them what to eat, and pressing them to help themselves.
In the outer apartments, the married women and waiting-maids in attendance, were, it is true, very numerous; but not even so much as the sound of the cawing of a crow could be heard.
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