My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard

ear

seventh day to write the

of sadness and longing

distance do no

her has chided me gr

knowest, I could not

arrows from the string

e again, and this time

he blamed. I as the he

er has told me, shoul

ught servants from her

rse, who, I am sure, lo

tle to occupy their han

d and gossip. If it

would have been well; bu

l goods she had gathe

Li-ti, who is too youn

spreads through the b

the soul of woman." I

s were made between t

er husband, and news w

l at last our household

ork and made livin

s the retailing of littl

n and ruins the peace

lk to Li-ti's nurse, and

now. I warned her that

ce she must still her t

commenced again, an

her, "The sheaves of

the last time. You

s firm. Such quarrels

beneath on

but she claimed her ser

e lay beneath our oute

curses upon the Liu fa

the enumeration of the

even behind closed doo

claimed so many men of

think thou mayest clai

nasty of Ming and broug

n and told us of-- not

nt, perhaps, if I had

y tree. I was impres

the family of Li-ti. T

idently recorded only t

hope that I will forge

trying to escape fro

ght becom

rs the woman was faint

er down to the boat, a

aying she was sickening

t her to end her days

other! Thine Honourabl

a far-off country? She

time I fully expected

; then she realised th

d her-self. It nearly c

le Mother has not long

f the tongue. She was f

ught her tea and heated

orget the great humili

man of medicine from t

ulders with a heated c

objected so strongly t

ed looking fearfully ov

assed quickly d

avourite priest from th

ame with candle and in

e monastery is justly

time to time a little

sleep came to

ed to talk to Li-ti; bu

of the ocean to a well

ill not understand. Sh

ing of paint and powde

er a wise woman in goo

wood cannot be carve

answer, but I sent Li-

sh Temple, and when sh

so s

ppy, and the cares of

y shoulders. Please do

t crave the work. I kno

whether the happiness

find less time to drea

my h

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