Pao-yues face was covered with the traces of tears. All my cousins here, senior as well as junior, he rejoined, as he sobbed, have no gem, and if its only I to have one, theres no fun in it, I maintain! and now comes this angelic sort of cousin, and she too has none, so that its clear enough that it is no profitable thing.
Dowager lady Chia hastened to coax him. This cousin of yours, she explained, would, under former circumstances, have come here with a jade; and its because your aunt felt unable, as she lay on her death-bed, to reconcile herself to the separation from your cousin, that in the absence of any remedy, she forthwith took the gem belonging to her (daughter), along with her (in the grave); so that, in the first place, by the fulfilment of the rites of burying the living with the dead might be accomplished the filial piety of your cousin; and in the second place, that the spirit of your aunt might also, for the time being, use it to gratify the wish of gazing on your cousin. Thats why she simply told you that she had no jade; for she couldnt very well have had any desire to give vent to self-praise. Now, how can you ever compare yourself with her? and dont you yet carefully and circumspectly put it on? Mind, your mother may come to know what you have done!
As she uttered these words, she speedily took the jade over from the hand of the waiting-maid, and she herself fastened it on for him.
【红楼梦Chapter3】相关文章:
★ 小学生阅读集训:Greenhouse gases making hurricanes stronger
★ InEbonBox,whenyearshaveflown
最新
2016-03-17
2016-03-17
2016-03-17
2016-03-17
2016-03-17
2016-03-17