Eastern shame girl

nd the beautiful women escorted them as far as the other side of the Ch'ung-w

in advance, there was only a single piece of bronze left in Li Chia's bag; the twenty ounces which Shih-niang had given him had vanished as if they had never been. The young man

turb himself. Our friends

able, bidding him open it. He found the bag heavy; for, in fact, it contained fifty ounces of silver. Sh

did not wish us to have any difficulty on our journey, and

ed in his delig

to wander, and at last to die without burial. Even when my hair

until Shih-niang consoled h

ia could now hire a smaller vessel for themselves alone, and in this he stow

of winter. The moon shone like water. The pair were

cted to fend for ourselves on our own junk. We have also left the cold of the north and will be on the south side of the river to

leasantries and laughters, and she had the same sentiment

, seated on a carpet beside hi

til they were a little dr

, my spirit took wing from me. It is long since you have overcome me in that way. The moon is bright o

, and a song escaped her. It was an affecting melody, taken from on

k flight to t

uds stopped

o the deep water,

in-an of Hui-chow; his ancestors had owned the salt monopoly in Yang-chow. He was just twenty years old and had moulded his character under his passion. The blue pavilion is where the smiles of p

the warbling phoenix. No words seemed adequate, he felt, to describe the beauty of this song. Walk

question the boatmen. But he learned only that Li Chia had hired

belong to a woman of a wonderful

h, he heard the wind roaring on the water. Cloud strangely veiled the

ds are s

nds of trees wer

sappear on ma

r in the

atches only snow an

de Li Chia's junk. Then, in a sable bonnet and wrapped in his fox-skin robe, he opened his cabin window, pretending to look at the snow as it fell. Shih-niang had just arranged her

. For a long moment he gazed, and his spirit was as if submerged. But he recovered himself and, le

mountain where

trees in t

y adv

us to see who was reciting it. In this way he fell into