No sooner had she entered the room, than she espied two servants supporting a venerable lady, with silver-white hair, coming forward to GREet her. Convinced that this lady must be her grandmother, she was about to prostrate herself and pay her obeisance, when she was quickly clasped in the arms of her grandmother, who held her close against her bosom; and as she called her my liver! my flesh! (my love! my darling!) she began to sob aloud.
the bystanders too, at once, without one exception, melted into tears; and Tai-yue herself found some difficulty in restraining her sobs. Little by little the whole party succeeded in consoling her, and Tai-yue at length paid her obeisance to her grandmother. Her ladyship thereupon pointed them out one by one to Tai-yue. This, she said, is the wife of your uncle, your mothers elder brother; this is the wife of your uncle, her second brother; and this is your eldest sister-in-law Chu, the wife of your senior cousin Chu.
Tai-yue bowed to each one of them (with folded arms)。
Ask the young ladies in, dowager lady Chia went on to say; tell them a guest from afar has just arrived, one who comes for the first time; and that they may not go to their lessons.
the servants with one voice signified their obedience, and two of them speedily went to carry out her orders.
Not long after three nurses and five or six waiting-maids were seen ushering in three young ladies. the first was somewhat plump in figure and of medium height; her cheeks had a congealed appearance, like a fresh lichee; her nose was glossy like goose fat. She was gracious, demure, and lovable to look at.
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