Page 136 PART II - CHAPTER Xblind for a space to anything else." She
paused to rest, and then went on, her words coming at last like
sighs. "Your father-is he not accounted an honourable man?
Yet have I long resigned myself to this thing; when a woman's
beauty seizes him and catches his desire he is mad for a time
and understands nothing reasonable. And he has known a score of
singing girls, beside these idle mouths he brings home as concubines-three
of them we have had, and the only reason we have not another is
because his lust failed for the Peking girl before the negotiations
were finished. How then can the son show greater wisdom than the
father? |
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