Page 16 PART I - CHAPTER Inone so small in your generation. My own were
scarcely more tiny at your age. I only hope that the family of
Li have paid heed to my messages and have bound as closely the
feet of their daughter, the betrothed of your brother, my son.
But I am fearful of it, because I hear she is learned in the Four
Books, and learning has never accompanied beauty in women. I must
send word to the go-between again regarding the matter. Page 17 PART I - CHAPTER Itoo ordinary to contain any mystery. Yet the
thought of this for myself-but my mother did not even see my hot
cheeks. She sat absorbed in meditation and fell to toying again
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