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ame Ch'ien-hsi, or "Purified-a-thousand times." His family were from Shao-hsing fu in Chekiang; his father was a Judge of the province of Kang-su; and Li himself was the eldest of three

to gain experience, frequented the theatres and music-halls. Thus, he became acquainted with a famous singing girl called Tu, whose f

distant mountains, and her eyes were as deep and bright as autumn lakes. Her face had the glory of the lotus, and her lips were the glo

ossible to enumerate the young Lords and Princes whose hearts she had besotted, whose thoughts she had set in a turmoil

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of a flowering willow filled his breast. He himself was gifted with rare beauty and a sweet and gentle nature. He squandered his money with an unbridled zeal for bestowing gifts. Fo

once, as she wished. Their love was not, on that account, any the less tender. In the joys of dawn and the pleasures of twilight they kept toge

ess was deepe

their love was as the mo

s of money, so that the director of nursing to whom Shih-niang belonged shrugged her shoulders and smiled. But the days went quickly, and the months too; and a

hia, who was infatuated, kept on delaying his departure until, hearing that his father was truly furious, he no longer dared

the young girl was indifferent to her commands, she tried to exasperate Chia with stinging words, hoping thus to compel him to depart. But her visitor's nature was so gentle

excited under our roof, our silver and silks mount up like hills. But it is more than a year since Li Chia began troubling your curtains, and now old patrons and new guests alike have discontinued

with difficulty under these

e with empty hands. He has paid

heir clients live or die. But now I have reared a white tiger who refuses riches, opens the door wide, and makes my old body bear the total burden. O miserable child! You wish to keep the poor for nothing. Where w

hat you say?"

has neither money nor clo

ng," answered

must he give to