Eastern shame girl

ch to buy another 'tinted face.' If he brings them within three days, I will take the silver with my left hand and give the girl with my right. But after three days, it

rrow three hundred ounces. But three

hundred would be more like! Yet

e to return. My only fear is that you will go back on

es. How should I dare not to keep my word? If you mistrust me, let us strike the palms of our h

e, Shih-Niang explained how her body

can I pay so much? My purse is a

spent all that your family gave you on your journey, you still have some friends or relations from whom you ca

tions have ceased to recognize me. But perhaps, if I asked

s hair and clothed himself, and was abo

nd come back to m

d him they could do nothing. His friends knew the weakness of his character, and that he was besotted with love for some "Flower-in-the-Mist" or other. He had remained in Peking, up to that time, they knew, not daring to face his fath

g the growing sadness of the young man, at last ventured to question him and learned his story and of his plan of marriage. Liu shook his head: "That is hardly possible. She is the most famous of all the singing girls. Who would be content with three hundred ounces for such a beauty? The old woman has conceived this method

r a long time, shaken by

your departure, many will help you. But as for your plan, you woul

nswered Li, "your judgm

is vain search for

lover come back to her. She sent a little servant to

-Sister awaits y

hame, Li

day. Tomorrow I wil

o bring him back, and to die soo

sh of the Elder-Sister