Pao-yue, at this proposal, felt elated to such an extraordinary deGREe that he could skip from joy, and there and then discarding from his mind all idea of where Mrs. Chin was, he readily followed the Fairy.
they reached some spot, where there was a stone tablet, put up in a horizontal position, on which were visible the four large characters: The confines of the GREat Void, on either side of which was one of a pair of scrolls, with the two antithetical sentences:
When falsehood stands for truth, truth likewise becomes false; When naught be made to aught, aught changes into naught!
Past the Portal stood the door of a Palace, and horizontally, above this door, were the four large characters: The Sea of Retribution, the Heaven of Love. There were also a pair of scrolls, with the inscription in large characters:
Passion, alas! thick as the earth, and lofty as the skies, from ages past to the present hath held incessant sway; How pitiful your lot! ye lustful men and women envious, that your voluptuous debts should be so hard to pay!
Pao-yue, after perusal, communed with his own heart. Is it really so! he thought, but I wonder what implies the passion from old till now, and what are the voluptuous debts! Henceforward, I must enlighten myself!
Pao-yue was bent upon this train of thoughts when he unwittingly attracted several evil spirits into his heart, and with speedy step he followed in the track of the fairy, and entered two rows of doors when he perceived that the Lateral Halls were, on both sides, full of tablets and scrolls, the number of which he could not in one moment ascertain. He however discriminated in numerous places the inscriptions: The Board of Lustful Love; the Board of contracted grudges; The Board of Matutinal sobs; the Board of nocturnal tears; the Board of vernal affections; and the Board of autumnal anguish.
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