Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

identifier	question
chapter-18	Does''green wax,''Pao- yü inquired,"come out from anywhere?"
chapter-18	It is easy enough for us to see each other,( she said,)"and why should we indulge in any excess of grief?
chapter-18	The two words''flower- laden bank,''she said,"are really felicitous, so what use was there for''persicary beach?''"
chapter-18	Why is it,the Chia consort inquired,"that there is no tablet in this Hall?"
chapter-18	After Chia Cheng had retired out of the hall, the Chia consort made it a point to ask:"How is it that I do not see Pao- yü?"
chapter-18	In days of plenty there''s a lack of dearth and of distress, And what need then is there to plough and weave with such briskness?
chapter-18	The pond who ever sinuous could hold?
chapter-18	Who''s your sister?
chapter-18	Will not thy heart be charmed on thy visit by the sight?
chapter-14	Did n''t I forget? chapter-14 Have you had it,"inquired lady Feng,"outside here, or over on the other side?"
chapter-14	Have you seen any one else besides me?
chapter-14	How is it that from our house, no one comes to get any orders or to obtain anything?
chapter-14	I feel quite sore from fatigue,ventured lady Feng,"and how can I stand your rubbing against me?
chapter-14	Which is the gentleman,he inquired of Chia Chen,"who was born with a piece of jade in his mouth?
chapter-14	Why have you come back?
chapter-14	With the terms of friendship,he added,"which have existed for so many generations( between our families), is there any need for such apologies?"
chapter-14	Would we eat anything with all that riff- raff?
chapter-14	Is it because you''re more respectable than they that you do n''t choose to listen to my words?"
chapter-14	They have this very day got the paper, and gone to paste it; and would they, for whatever they need, have still waited until they had been sent for?
chapter-14	exclaimed lady Feng, as she forced a smile,"is it you who have been remiss?
chapter-15	Just see,remarked lady Feng,"how hard pressed I am; which place can do without me?
chapter-15	What''s it?
chapter-15	Why notice a creature like her?
chapter-15	Your name is,he said,"no trumped- up story; for you, verily, resemble a precious gem; but where''s the valuable trinket you had in your mouth?"
chapter-15	But was it likely that Pao- yü would be willing to go back?
chapter-15	Ch''in Chung answered laughing;"do you fear that if you told her to pour you one, that she would n''t; and what need is there that I should tell her?"
chapter-15	Chih Neng compressed her lips and sneeringly rejoined,"Are you going to have a fight even over a cup of tea?
chapter-15	Chih Neng got in a dreadful state, and stamping her feet, cried,"What are you up to?"
chapter-15	Is it forsooth likely that there''s honey in my hand?"
chapter-15	Taking also his hand in his, he inquired of Pao- yü what was his age?
chapter-15	and do you want to fool me now?"
chapter-15	do get down and let both you and I sit together in this carriage; and wo n''t that be nice?"
chapter-15	why then did you the other day, when you were in the old lady''s rooms, and there was not a soul present, hold her in your arms?
chapter-12	Are you in real earnest?
chapter-12	How could I put what happened in black and white on paper?
chapter-12	I daily have ample leisure,Chia Jui ventured with a simper,"and would n''t it be well if I came every day to dispel your dulness, sister- in- law?"
chapter-12	It is n''t likely you would wish to come over here to me?
chapter-12	Letting you off,rejoined Chia Se,"is no difficult thing; but how much, I wonder, are you likely to give?
chapter-12	May it not be,he thought,"that she is not coming again; and that I may have once more to freeze for another whole night?"
chapter-12	The only thing is that crowds of people are ever passing from there, and how will it be possible for me to evade detection?
chapter-12	This Taoist,he thought,"would seem to speak sensibly, and why should I not look at it and try its effect?"
chapter-12	What kind of magical mirror is it?
chapter-12	What''s the matter?
chapter-12	Why, who wants to play with you?
chapter-12	Having forthwith given directions to bring fire and burn it, a voice was heard in the air to say,"Who told you to look into the face of it?
chapter-12	You yourselves have mistaken what is false for what is true, and why burn this glass of mine?"
chapter-12	he exclaimed,"why should you frighten me so?
chapter-02	How can it be that you people who have the same surname do not belong to one clan?
chapter-02	In whose family?
chapter-02	To what can you be alluding?
chapter-02	When did you get here?
chapter-02	Who does n''t know him?
chapter-02	But how is it that the Chia family have likewise fallen into this common practice?"
chapter-02	But why should I not go in and inquire for myself?"
chapter-02	Do you perhaps know him?"
chapter-02	How is that you have no sense of shame?''
chapter-02	Is it perchance about him that you are inquiring?"
chapter-02	Is it perchance that you expect us young ladies to go and intercede for you?
chapter-02	Is n''t this absurd, eh?"
chapter-02	Now tell me, are not these words ridiculous?
chapter-02	Now what do you say to this?
chapter-02	Now, tell me, was not this a novel and strange occurrence?
chapter-02	The conversation ran on what had occurred after the separation, and Yü- ts''un inquired,"Is there any news of any kind in the capital?"
chapter-02	eh?"
chapter-02	exclaimed Yü- ts''un,"did this affair take place in that family?
chapter-11	How do you find her?
chapter-11	How do you, who do n''t see our son''s wife very often, happen to find her?
chapter-11	If you encourage such ideas,remonstrated lady Feng,"how can this illness ever get all right?
chapter-11	Is there to be any entertainment or not?
chapter-11	Is your mistress,observed lady Feng,"so like a quick- footed demon?"
chapter-11	It was n''t convenient for them,remarked lady Feng,"to be over here; but who knows what they have again gone to do behind our backs?"
chapter-11	May she not,remarked madame Hsing, taking up the thread of the conversation,"be ailing for some happy event?"
chapter-11	Relatives,she continued,"of one family, as we are, what need is there to say anything of tender years?"
chapter-11	The senior ladies occupy the seats of honour,remonstrated lady Feng,"and how can I presume to choose?"
chapter-11	Where have all the gentlemen gone to?
chapter-11	Why is this Mr. Jui so bent upon coming?'' chapter-11 Why should this beast compass his own death?
chapter-11	How is your wife getting on?
chapter-11	Jui?"
chapter-11	There are now in the garden some young actors engaged in making their preparations?"
chapter-11	While lady Feng advanced leisurely, she inquired,"How many plays have been recited?"
chapter-11	for by so doing wo n''t you yourself be aggravating your ailment?"
chapter-11	how is she, after all, to- day?"
chapter-11	she exclaimed;"How is it that during the few days I''ve not seen you, you have grown so thin?"
chapter-11	sister- in- law,"exclaimed Chia Jui,"do n''t you recognise even me?"
chapter-23	Are you going again to play the fool with me? chapter-23 Are you speaking in earnest,"she inquired,"or are you only jesting?"
chapter-23	Cousin, tell me is it nice or not?
chapter-23	How can it possibly be,Chia Cheng exclaimed,"that her ladyship knows anything about such kind of language?
chapter-23	What''s the book?
chapter-23	Who''s this called Hsi Jen?
chapter-23	But when he saw that Lin Tai- yü was at the moment in the room, Pao- yü speedily inquired of her:"Which place do you think best to live in?"
chapter-23	But who would have anticipated that he could ever in his quiet seclusion have become a prey to a spirit of restlessness?
chapter-23	But would Pao- yü agree to not introducing them into the garden?
chapter-23	Contentment and pleasure are to be found in whose family courts?
chapter-23	Do n''t you yet get out of this?"
chapter-23	In plenteous streams the candles''tears do drop, but for whom do they weep?
chapter-23	It''s really written in beautiful style; and were you to once begin reading it, why even for your very rice you would n''t have a thought?"
chapter-13	Do you think you are equal to the task?
chapter-13	How ever could a mere child like her,speedily remonstrated madame Wang,"carry out all these matters?
chapter-13	Is it really about this that you''ve come?
chapter-13	My dear sister- in- law,she said as she smiled,"sleep in peace; I''m on my way back to- day, and wo n''t even you accompany me just one stage?
chapter-13	The fears you express are well founded,she urgently remarked,"but what plan is there adequate to preserve it from future injury?"
chapter-13	What felicitous occurrence will take place?
chapter-13	What is it?
chapter-13	What is the matter?
chapter-13	What is their price?
chapter-13	What matters are these?
chapter-13	What wish is it you have?
chapter-13	What''s there that I could n''t be equal to?
chapter-13	Who is it?
chapter-13	You are not well?
chapter-13	After a time, the lady relatives dispersed, and madame Wang seized the opportunity to inquire of lady Feng,"What do you purpose doing to- day?"
chapter-13	Why ask about price?
chapter-10	But I would also ask you, Doctor, to be good enough to tell me whether this illness will, in the long run, endanger her life or not?
chapter-10	The day after to- morrow,she felt obliged to add,"is again our senior''s, Mr. Chia Ching''s birthday, and how are we to celebrate it after all?"
chapter-10	This child too is somewhat simple,observed Chia Chen;"for what need has she to be taking off her clothes, and changing them for others?
chapter-10	What did she have to say for herself during this visit to- day?
chapter-10	What do I care about how many?
chapter-10	Why need you be so modest?
chapter-10	A matron, who was attached as a personal attendant( to Mrs. Ch''in,) and who happened to be standing by interposed:"How could it be otherwise?"
chapter-10	Am I right in assuming this or not?"
chapter-10	And with such a temperament and deportment as hers, which of our relatives and which of our elders do n''t love her?''
chapter-10	Besides, does his conduct consist, for the most part, of anything that would make one get any face?
chapter-10	But do you and yours, perchance, know of any good practitioner?"
chapter-10	Had it in past days been treated with such medicine as could strengthen the heart, and improve the respiration, would it have reached this stage?
chapter-10	Had we not others to depend upon for your studies, would we have in our house the means sufficient to engage a teacher?
chapter-10	Has not your lady, may I ask, heretofore at the period of the catamenia, suffered, if indeed not from anaemia, then necessarily from plethora?
chapter-10	His mother, née Hu, hearing him mutter;"Why meddle again,"she explained,"in things that do n''t concern you?
chapter-10	Huang?"
chapter-10	Now, sister- in- law, tell me, is my heart sore or not?
chapter-10	The clothes may be no matter how fine, but what is their worth, after all?
chapter-10	The whole body of doctors who at present go in and out of our household, are they worth having?
chapter-10	When tea was over,"Judging,"he inquired,"Doctor, from the present action of the pulses, is there any remedy or not?"
chapter-10	Will this do?"
chapter-10	and were she even to wear out a suit of new clothes a- day, what would that too amount to?
chapter-38	I managed, after ever so much difficulty, to put a stanza together,Pao- ch''ai smiled,"and are you now in such a hurry to deprive me of it?"
chapter-38	I''ve already thought of a few; but will any of you again have the pluck to devise any?
chapter-38	Is it likely that:''Who plants the flowers? ….
chapter-38	Lady Secunda,consequently ventured Yüan Yang,"you''re in here doing the honours, so may I go and have something to eat?"
chapter-38	What has your ladyship come out again for?
chapter-38	Which is the best spot?
chapter-38	do not all forsooth amount to searching for chrysanthemums? chapter-38 And this morn … bedecked with frost,''do n''t both bear on planting them?
chapter-38	But do n''t you yet quick pour me a cup of wine?"
chapter-38	But if ye fathom what I say, why not converse with me a while?
chapter-38	Do I make use of pigments red or green as to involve a task of toilsome work?
chapter-38	Do not tell me that in the world none of you grow with power of speech?
chapter-38	Do you not mark how they resemble those, by the east hedge, which you leisurely pluck?
chapter-38	From these few scanty words, who could fathom the secrets of my heart about the autumntide?
chapter-38	If not, what would be the earthly use of making them behave like so many saints?"
chapter-38	My secret wrongs to whom can I go and divulge, when I wake up from sleep?
chapter-38	Outside the rails they grow and by the hedge; but in autumn where do they go?
chapter-38	So peerless and unique are ye that who is meet with you to stay?
chapter-38	When wild geese homeward fly and crickets sicken, do you think of me?
chapter-38	Who bids me drink a thousand cups of wine in order to enhance my joy?
chapter-38	Who plants the flowers in all those spots, facing the dew and under the moon''s rays?
chapter-38	Why are you of all flowers the only ones to burst the last in bloom?
chapter-38	Why in such silence plunge the garden dew and the frost in the hall?
chapter-38	now that they have been dropped into the boiling pot, what good do they derive?
chapter-38	she said;"Have you by gorging lost your eyesight that you recklessly smudge your mistress''face?"
chapter-38	… in autumn where do they go?
chapter-42	Am I not aged enough to be a mother to that fellow? chapter-42 Are there not flower spirits in the garden?
chapter-42	But what takes the cake is that last remark about leisurely going to work, for if she were n''t to paint at all, how could she ever finish her task? chapter-42 Cousin Pao,"she observed,"do n''t you wring her mouth?
chapter-42	Do you still pretend to be a fool?
chapter-42	How are you noble doctor?
chapter-42	How could I presume to be the cause of such reckless waste?
chapter-42	If she goes on so leisurely to work,she exclaimed,"wo n''t she require two years''time?"
chapter-42	Is it likely, pray, that you can get ivory out of a cur''s mouth?
chapter-42	Is this,she said pointing at Li Wan,"doing what you''re told and showing us how to do needlework and teaching us manners?
chapter-42	Let me ask you,she said,"are you only going to paint the garden, or will you insert us in it as well?"
chapter-42	To do what with them?
chapter-42	What did I say?
chapter-42	What do you, P''in Erh, know about these things?
chapter-42	What is the worthy surname of this noble doctor?
chapter-42	What''s up again?
chapter-42	When we played yesterday that game of wine- forfeits, what did you say? chapter-42 Why did n''t you say so earlier?"
chapter-42	Why need I ask?
chapter-42	Will there be any need to also introduce insects in it? chapter-42 But let''s consider now what would be best to use to paint the picture on?
chapter-42	But of what branch of the family is she a grandmother?
chapter-42	If you, cousin, do n''t let me off, to whom can I go and address my entreaties?"
chapter-42	What do you say about it?"
chapter-42	What do you want to examine me about?"
chapter-42	and am I, pray, to still stand on any ceremonies with him?
chapter-42	she said,"what are you saying?
chapter-03	Exclusive of the Four Books,Pao- yü remarked smilingly,"the majority of works are plagiarised; and is it only I, perchance, who plagiarise?
chapter-03	From what part of the standard books does that come?
chapter-03	Have you read any books, cousin?
chapter-03	How is it, miss,she inquired smiling,"that you have not turned in as yet?"
chapter-03	I''ll give you a style,suggested Pao- yü smilingly;"wo n''t the double style''P''in P''in,''''knitting brows,''do very well?"
chapter-03	I''ve only just recovered from a fit of crying,dowager lady Chia observed, as she smiled,"and have you again come to start me?
chapter-03	Is n''t it to the cousin born with jade in his mouth, that you are alluding to, aunt?
chapter-03	That jade of yours is besides a rare object, and how could every one have one?
chapter-03	There you are again with your nonsense,exclaimed lady Chia, sneeringly;"how could you have seen her before?"
chapter-03	What books are my cousins reading?
chapter-03	What is your worthy name, cousin?
chapter-03	When you get into a passion, it''s easy enough for you to beat and abuse people; but what makes you fling away that stem of life?
chapter-03	Your style?
chapter-03	Addressing at the same time the matrons, she went on to ask,"Have Miss Lin''s luggage and effects been brought in?
chapter-03	And hastily taking once more Tai- yü''s hand in her own:"How old are you, cousin?"
chapter-03	As Yü- ts''un bowed and expressed his appreciation in most profuse language,--"Pray,"he asked,"where does your honoured brother- in- law reside?
chapter-03	Have you got any jade or not?"
chapter-03	How can this not make my heart sore- stricken?"
chapter-03	How did it happen that our aunt died at such an early period?"
chapter-03	How many servants has she brought along with her?
chapter-03	Now had he broken that jade, as he hurled it on the ground, would n''t it have been my fault?
chapter-03	Now, how can you ever compare yourself with her?
chapter-03	What medicines are you taking?
chapter-03	Why do n''t you yet salute your cousin?"
chapter-03	Why then should you not go?"
chapter-03	and do n''t you yet carefully and circumspectly put it on?
chapter-03	and what is his official capacity?
chapter-03	she inquired;"Have you been to school?
chapter-04	How could I possibly know?
chapter-04	I heard that she had been kidnapped, ever since she was five years old; but has she only been sold recently?
chapter-04	What is an office- philactery?
chapter-04	What is there in your idea to be done?
chapter-04	What need is there to go to such trouble?
chapter-04	Why did you, a short while back,Yü- ts''un inquired,"not allow me to issue the warrants?"
chapter-04	Are you also perchance well aware of the place of retreat of this homicide?"
chapter-04	Besides, were we to have our house got ready in a scramble, wo n''t it make people think it strange?
chapter-04	But do you think that young gentleman, Mr. Hsüeh, would yield his claim to her person?
chapter-04	But may it please your worship to consider carefully this plan and see what you think of it?"
chapter-04	But who would have foreseen the issue?
chapter-04	But why discuss third parties?
chapter-04	Have you even forgotten the place where you started in life?
chapter-04	Now does your worship know who this girl is who was sold?"
chapter-04	Now wo n''t this be a considerable saving of trouble?"
chapter-04	Their encounter was likewise not accidental; for had it been, how was it that this Feng Yüan took a fancy to Ying Lien?
chapter-04	This Hsüeh family, just a while back spoken of, how could your worship presume to provoke?
chapter-04	This is a private room; so that if you sat down, what would it matter?"
chapter-04	What do you say; will this suit you or not?"
chapter-04	Who is it then that your Worship purposes having arrested?"
chapter-04	You have to bear suspense only for two or three days, and what need is there to be sorrowful and dejected?''
chapter-04	and do you not remember what occurred, in years gone by, in the Hu Lu Temple?"
chapter-04	is it really she?"
chapter-53	Among your hills and seaboard can anything,they observed,"be known with regard to this principle?
chapter-53	Are n''t they ridiculous, eh?
chapter-53	Are you trying again to excuse yourself with me?
chapter-53	Do you flatter yourself that I have no idea of your doings in the family temples? chapter-53 Go and ask your aunt Tertia, yonder,"he further enjoined Chia Jung,"whether the day on which the new year wine is to be drunk has been fixed or not?
chapter-53	Have we received,thereupon inquired Chia Chen,"the bounty conferred( by His Majesty) for our spring sacrifices or not?"
chapter-53	How ever could they have reached such straits? chapter-53 How is it that you''ve come too?"
chapter-53	How is it you''ve been away the whole day?
chapter-53	How many days have you been on the way?
chapter-53	What does this old executioner come for to- day?
chapter-53	What''s to be done?
chapter-53	Who told you to come?
chapter-53	Yesterday,he said,"she was much better, so how is it that to- day she is instead weaker, and has fallen off so much?
chapter-53	And as I''ll keep for the next day what I sha n''t be able to get through, wo n''t I thus have a good deal more?"
chapter-53	And do you still come to fetch things of this kind?
chapter-53	And if they do n''t appeal to you, to whom can they go?"
chapter-53	And though you now fling away money with such a high hand, do you still presume to come and receive gifts?
chapter-53	And wo n''t the Empress and His Majesty the Emperor bestow their favour?"
chapter-53	But as I feared lest you, Sir, would be giving way to anxiety, did n''t I hurry along to arrive in good time?"
chapter-53	But did she even give them so much as a thousand and more taels, what would these suffice for?
chapter-53	Do they care to see me?"
chapter-53	During which of the two last years have they not had to fork out several thousands of taels?
chapter-53	Have I got such a dreadful disease?"
chapter-53	Is it likely, in fact, that we ca n''t come up to that girl Feng?"
chapter-53	Is it likely, pray, that the Empress will ever make over to us the Emperor''s treasury?
chapter-53	Is n''t the whole crowd of them keen upon coming to see what the world is like at the feet of the son of heaven?
chapter-53	So is n''t it as well that you should again let me have a few?
chapter-53	What''s this enough for?
chapter-53	You said some time back that you had nothing which could bring you in any money, but how is it that you''ve got none again now?
chapter-01	I was simply at random humming a few verses composed by former writers, and what reason is there to laud me to such an excessive degree? chapter-01 My worthy Sir,"he observed with a forced smile;"how is it you are leaning against the door and looking out?
chapter-01	Sir Priest,the stone replied with assurance,"why are you so excessively dull?
chapter-01	Wait a while,he therefore said smilingly;"let me unravel this excellent- finality song of yours; do you mind?"
chapter-01	What characters may I ask,it consequently inquired,"will you inscribe?
chapter-01	Whither do you purpose taking the object you have brought away?
chapter-01	Why did you not speak about this sooner?
chapter-01	You may well have heard the two words''hao liao,''answered the Taoist with a smile,"but can you be said to have fathomed their meaning?
chapter-01	But I wonder whether you will entertain favourably my modest invitation?"
chapter-01	Facing the breeze, her shadow she doth watch, Who''s meet this moonlight night with her to match?
chapter-01	From old till now of parents soft many, But filial sons and grandsons who have seen?
chapter-01	From old till now the statesmen where are they?
chapter-01	I''ve often had the honour of being your guest, and what will it matter if I wait a little?"
chapter-01	Is there perchance any news astir in the streets, or in the public places?"
chapter-01	May I not be allowed to judge for myself?"
chapter-01	Now, Sir Priest, what are your views on the subject?"
chapter-01	Reader, can you suggest whence the story begins?
chapter-01	Shih- yin upon hearing these words, hastily came up to the priest,"What were you so glibly holding forth?"
chapter-01	The poet says appositely:-- Pages full of silly litter, Tears a handful sour and bitter; All a fool the author hold, But their zest who can unfold?
chapter-01	To what, my dear Sir, do I owe the pleasure of your visit?"
chapter-01	What are, however, the events recorded in this work?
chapter-01	Who are the dramatis personae?
chapter-01	Why should not you and I avail ourselves of this opportunity to likewise go down into the world?
chapter-01	and if successful in effecting the salvation of a few of them, will it not be a work meritorious and virtuous?"
chapter-01	and in what place will they descend?"
chapter-01	and what place will I be taken to?
chapter-09	Disentangle what?
chapter-09	Do you want to die?
chapter-09	Does your worthy father at home mind your having any friends?
chapter-09	How is it,interposed Tai- yü, as she once again called out to him and stopped him,"that you do n''t go and bid farewell to your cousin Pao Ch''ai?"
chapter-09	I do n''t mind your speaking,Chin Jung observed laughing;"but would you perchance not have me cough?
chapter-09	I was wondering whose relative he was,he remarked;"is he really sister- in- law Huang''s nephew?
chapter-09	Is it likely that others can safely come and that you and I ca n''t? chapter-09 My dear sister,"he said,"how is it you are n''t again yourself?
chapter-09	My young ancestor,replied Li Kuei,"who presumes to look forward to an invitation?
chapter-09	Study is a most excellent thing, and without it a whole lifetime is a mere waste, and what good comes in the long run? chapter-09 Venerable Sir,"they pleaded,"why need you be so down upon him?
chapter-09	What have you found out?
chapter-09	Who are in attendance upon Pao- yü?
chapter-09	Why that?
chapter-09	You people,he said,"remain waiting upon him the whole day long at school, but what books has he after all read?
chapter-09	And that how is it possible for us to continue our studies in here?"
chapter-09	But I have sure enough found you out, so what''s the need of still prevaricating?
chapter-09	I''ll tell you what, however; if you have anything to say, why not utter it in intelligible language?
chapter-09	Is it likely that you bear me a grudge for being about to go to school, because when I leave you, you''ll all feel dull?"
chapter-09	Is it likely you would n''t have us speak to each other?"
chapter-09	This Chin Jung,"he went on to inquire as he turned towards Lei Kuei,"is the relative or friend of what branch of the family?"
chapter-09	Upon asking"What''s the matter?"
chapter-09	Were you allowed to go on in this mysterious manner, what strange doings would you be up to?
chapter-09	and why did you wait until things came to such a pass, and did n''t even exercise any check?"
chapter-09	speedily shouted Li Kuei,"does this son of a dog happen to know of the existence of all these gnawing maggots?"
chapter-16	Has after all permission for the visit been granted?
chapter-16	I''ll drink it,replied dame Chao,"but you, my lady, must also have a cup: what''s there to fear?
chapter-16	I''ve often heard,continued lady Feng,"my eldest uncle say that things were in such a state, and how could n''t I believe?
chapter-16	Is it really so? chapter-16 It was only yesterday,"he hastily added,"that I saw him, and he was still bright and cheery; and how is it that he''s anything but well now?"
chapter-16	That goes without saying,added Chia Lien,"otherwise, for what purpose could we be in such a stir just now?"
chapter-16	What Hsiang Ling ever came?
chapter-16	What foul man has taken hold of them?
chapter-16	What intimate friend is this again?
chapter-16	Who is n''t aware of these facts?
chapter-16	But if you, sir, go on in this way, will you not, instead of doing him any good, aggravate his illness?"
chapter-16	But these words of mine are also incorrect, eh?
chapter-16	I''ll take P''ing Erh over and exchange her for her; what do you say to that?
chapter-16	Now besides from the heavens has dropped such a mighty piece of good luck; and in what place will there be no need of servants?
chapter-16	Tell me, my lady,( what''s come to) Wang Erh''s wife?
chapter-16	Whence will,"he therefore went on to ask,"the money required for this purpose come from?"
chapter-16	Which of those foster brothers whom you have now discarded, is n''t clearly better than others?
chapter-16	and have you still an eye as envious and a heart so covetous?
chapter-16	and now do you wait until he has summoned a man of glorious fortune and prosperous standing to at last desist?"
chapter-16	and were he to have heard that my lady had private means, would he not have been still more reckless in spending?
chapter-16	and were you to have shown them some favour and consideration, who would have ventured to have said''do n''t?''
chapter-16	but who are those who are, in every respect, up to the mark?
chapter-16	for what family has such a lot of money as to indulge in this useless extravagance?"
chapter-16	he asked,"are you able to undertake these commissions?
chapter-48	Are you speaking the truth?
chapter-48	As you''re moved in here,she said to Hsiang Ling,"wo n''t you go and pay your respects to your neighbours?"
chapter-48	But I wonder how you arrived at this conclusion?
chapter-48	But is it likely, miss, that you''ve heard nothing about it?
chapter-48	Consider now how ever can mist be upright? chapter-48 Have you caught the ideas of any of them, yes or no?"
chapter-48	Is it likely that we improvise verses in real earnest? chapter-48 Is there anything so difficult about this,"Tai- yü pursued,"as to make it necessary to go in for any study?
chapter-48	Of all these, how many stanzas can you recollect?
chapter-48	What are they like?
chapter-48	What have you got?
chapter-48	What is this that you''re saying, Miss?
chapter-48	What''s there to fear?
chapter-48	Who does n''t go in for these things for fun?
chapter-48	Why make a fool of me, miss?
chapter-48	Why,Pao- ch''ai remonstrated,"do you bring such trouble upon yourself?
chapter-48	''How is it,''he said,''that other people can manage to get them?''
chapter-48	And as I work away every night, wo n''t it be better for me to have an extra person with me?"
chapter-48	And when is this likely to come to an end?
chapter-48	And would you fail to attain success in anything you might take up?"
chapter-48	But what would you have me do?
chapter-48	But why did he beat him again?"
chapter-48	But, reader, do you wish to know any further particulars?
chapter-48	Now, miss, do consider what was to be done?
chapter-48	So I wrote out several stanzas, and gave them to them to look over, and who did not praise them with all sincerity?
chapter-48	So would n''t it be advisable that I should also get ready some of my capital, and go on a tour with Chang Te- hui for a year or so?
chapter-48	The eve is fine, so why need any silvery candles burn?
chapter-48	have you heard our news?"
chapter-41	Are you bent upon drinking your own private tea?
chapter-41	But, after all, what kind of wood is this cup made of?
chapter-41	Can you make out from those characters what temple this is?
chapter-41	Have n''t you yet had enough to satisfy you?
chapter-41	Have you done with your wine?
chapter-41	How could you ever go and speak to her? chapter-41 How is it,"smiled Miao Yü sardonically,"that a person like you can be such a boor as not to be able to discriminate water, when you taste it?
chapter-41	Is this a coarse thing?
chapter-41	Is this rain water from last year?
chapter-41	May she not have fallen into the place?
chapter-41	That cup,he said,"is, of course, dirty; but is it not a pity to put it away for no valid reason?
chapter-41	These have so far impeded my progress,she consequently exclaimed,"and how am I to manage to get out?"
chapter-41	This one?
chapter-41	What are you laughing at?
chapter-41	What birds get transformed into beautiful things and become able to speak?
chapter-41	What kind of stone is this? chapter-41 What names can I know?"
chapter-41	What stuffing have they put in them?
chapter-41	What water is this?
chapter-41	What young lady''s room is this that it is so beautiful?
chapter-41	Who''ll ever eat these things?
chapter-41	After lolling about with her for a few minutes,"What kind of tree is this?"
chapter-41	But how is it you did n''t detect it, when you put it to your lips?
chapter-41	But were you now to go in for this huge cup, why what more would n''t that be?"
chapter-41	But what young lady introduced you in here?"
chapter-41	Can you manage this large cup?"
chapter-41	Goody Liu quickly raised her head, and, pointing at the inscription,"Are''nt these,"she said,"the four characters''Pearly Emperor''s Precious Hall?''"
chapter-41	Has rain water, obtained a year back, ever got such a soft and pure flavour?
chapter-41	She tried to discover an exit, but where could she find a doorway?
chapter-41	To my idea it would be preferable, would n''t it?
chapter-41	What do you say, will it do?"
chapter-41	What species of flower is that?"
chapter-41	and how possibly could it be drunk at all?"
chapter-25	But what, I wonder,inquired dowager lady Chia,"could be offered to this god?"
chapter-25	For a whole day and a whole night,asked dowager lady Chia,"how much oil is needed, so that I too should accomplish a good action?"
chapter-25	Have n''t I, forsooth, discovered it all for myself? chapter-25 How can I know anything about such matters, contrary as they are to what is right?"
chapter-25	How is it,she speedily urged,"that an intelligent person like you should have become so dense?
chapter-25	It''s your lady Secunda, Lien, eh?
chapter-25	On what hill,he asked those two persons,"do you cultivate the principles of reason?
chapter-25	Since you''ve had some of our tea,lady Feng laughed,"how is it that you have not yet become a wife in our household?"
chapter-25	Sister Pao,inquired Hsi Ch''un,"what are you laughing for?"
chapter-25	The other day,interposed lady Feng,"I sent servants with a present of two caddies of tea for you, Miss Lin; was it, after all, good?"
chapter-25	We are a full company to- day,laughed Tai- yü,"but who has issued the cards and invited us here?"
chapter-25	Were you,insinuated lady Feng,"to become a wife in my family, what is there that you would lack?"
chapter-25	What plan could I stealthily devise?
chapter-25	What''s there hard about this?
chapter-25	Who is it,—she inquired;"who gave orders to make the coffins?
chapter-25	You bring up,she berated her,"such a black- hearted offspring like this, and do n''t you, after all, advise and reprove him?
chapter-25	And do you still tarry up to this day?"
chapter-25	And the Taoist priest, what was he like?
chapter-25	Are not our stock and estate sufficient for you?
chapter-25	Are you, pray, fearful lest I should n''t give you any reward?"
chapter-25	But, is there, I wonder, any remedy by means of which they could he healed?"
chapter-25	But, reader, do you want to know any further circumstances?
chapter-25	Could you now drive him to death, your wishes would immediately be fulfilled; but which of you will I let off?"
chapter-25	Do n''t you yet come back?
chapter-25	For up to whom in this house can my son and I come?
chapter-25	If, indeed, the spell prove efficacious, and we exterminate them both, is there any apprehension that this family estate wo n''t be ours?
chapter-25	Is not his station in life good enough for you?
chapter-25	It possesses the virtue of alleviating the ailment, so why need you inquire about remedies?"
chapter-25	Now, is n''t this enough to make one laugh, eh?"
chapter-25	Tai- yü then gave up the attempt, and confined herself to asking him:"whether it was very painful?"
chapter-25	What was the appearance of the bonze?
chapter-25	You wish him dead and gone; but what benefit will you then derive?
chapter-25	and in what slight degree can he make you lose caste?"
chapter-25	and when that time comes, wo n''t you get all you may wish?"
chapter-25	she cried—"Is not this human being worthy of you?
chapter-25	what''s the use of making people dislike you?"
chapter-25	why, is it likely that any one would have the courage to tell her anything?"
chapter-40	As they''re practising,dowager lady Chia eagerly cried, smilingly,"why not ask them to come in here and practise?
chapter-40	Eh?
chapter-40	Have the partition boxes been filled with wine for by and bye?
chapter-40	Have you perchance twisted your waist?
chapter-40	How could one hear what''s going on in the street?
chapter-40	How is it I do n''t see Pao- yü?
chapter-40	How long can you have lived?
chapter-40	In whose house is there a wedding?
chapter-40	Is this anything like a young lady''s private room?
chapter-40	It''s such thin stuff,lady Feng observed,"and do you still say that it was made in the palace for imperial use?
chapter-40	She may have gone through a good deal,they remarked,"but how can she ever presume to pit herself against an old lady like you?
chapter-40	We''ve coaxed our dowager lady to get a little distraction; and what reason is there to be angry? chapter-40 What are you saying, Miss?"
chapter-40	What do you want her for again?
chapter-40	What''s there to be afraid of?
chapter-40	What''s this that you''re saying?
chapter-40	When was this garden left quiet during all the days of this year?
chapter-40	Where''s Su Yun gone to?
chapter-40	Who also got the boats ready?
chapter-40	Who has now brought out these chopsticks again?
chapter-40	Why do n''t you yet tell the servants to pull them off?
chapter-40	Why, people have come, day after day, to visit it, so was there ever any time to tell the servants to come and clean it?
chapter-40	Why,she shouted,"do n''t you pour a cup of tea for the old dame?"
chapter-40	You young wenches,shouted out dowager lady Chia,"do n''t you yet raise her up, but stand by giggling?"
chapter-40	You, venerable senior, must certainly have a good wine order to impose,Mrs. Hsüeh laughingly observed,"but how could we ever comply with it?
chapter-40	''They do n''t also,''I thought,''go up to the house tops to sun things, so what can they keep those ladders in readiness for?''
chapter-40	And that without those ladders, how could one ever reach that height?
chapter-40	But you''re not small children any more, and are you still up to these pranks?
chapter-40	Goody Liu forthwith stretched out the chopsticks with the intent of catching one; but how could she manage to do so?
chapter-40	How ever can I move them about?"
chapter-40	I presumed that those pictures were purely and simply fictitious, for how could there be any such places in reality?
chapter-40	If they have any objects ready at hand, why should n''t they lay them out?
chapter-40	If you''ve got nothing to lay about, why not ask your aunt for a few articles?
chapter-40	So what do you say to my asking her to- morrow to make a picture for you?"
chapter-40	What day ever goes by without my tumbling down a couple of times?
chapter-40	Where are they all gone to?"
chapter-40	Will you again brag by and bye, after this?"
chapter-40	Wo n''t this be an original way?"
chapter-40	You ca n''t be going yet?"
chapter-40	old lady Chia added smilingly,"and how many kinds of things can you have met, that you indulge in this tall talk?
chapter-40	retorted goody Liu,"am I so delicate?
chapter-30	But if I die?
chapter-30	But resentment, for what?
chapter-30	But what stuff and nonsense is this you''re talking? chapter-30 Can it be possible,"mused Pao- yü,"that this girl too is stupid?
chapter-30	Cousin Pao- ch''ai,she inquired,"what two plays did you hear?"
chapter-30	Cousin, are you quite well again?
chapter-30	Have you come, on behalf of others, to find fault with me? chapter-30 Here we grow older day after day, but we''re still so full of brazen- faced effrontery that we do n''t even know what right means?"
chapter-30	How will it ever do to let him get a sunstroke and come to some harm on a day like this, and under such a scorching sun?
chapter-30	Instead of kicking,she remarked,"do n''t you yet go and change your clothes?"
chapter-30	Is it truly called:''Carrying a birch and begging for punishment''?
chapter-30	On this broiling hot day,she inquired laughing also;"who still eats raw ginger?"
chapter-30	What are you up to?
chapter-30	What do you want them for again?
chapter-30	What would Miss Pao- ch''ai come over to do at such an hour?
chapter-30	What''s the hurry?
chapter-30	Where are you off to?
chapter-30	Who wants to go hand in hand with you?
chapter-30	Why did you,smiled Tzu Chüan,"take the scissors and cut that tassel when there was no good reason for it?
chapter-30	With whom have I ever been up to jokes, that you come and suspect me? chapter-30 Yet is there forsooth anything outside there to protect you from the rain?"
chapter-30	You have by dint of talking,Pao- yü laughed,"made much ado of nothing; and why should n''t I come, when there''s no reason for me to keep away?
chapter-30	You must, I presume, be bent upon dying?
chapter-30	And had I to wait until they came to reconcile us, would we not by that time become perfect strangers?
chapter-30	Besides, have n''t there been already one or two rows on account of that very jade?"
chapter-30	But how ever was I hasty?"
chapter-30	But how is it,"he went on to ask,"that you have n''t gone over to see the theatricals?"
chapter-30	But if outwardly she behaves in this wise, who knows what anguish she may n''t suffer at heart?
chapter-30	But is cousin quite well?"
chapter-30	But why did you again yesterday become like black- eyed fighting cocks?
chapter-30	Can she also be following P''in Erh''s example and come to inter flowers?
chapter-30	Do n''t you yet come with me to see your grandmother and make an old lady like her set her mind at ease a bit?"
chapter-30	Have I hitherto laughed and smirked with you?
chapter-30	I''ve been in attendance on your ladyship for about ten years, and if you now drive me away, will I be able to look at any one in the face?"
chapter-30	Imagining, however, that Pao- yü could not be coming back at that hour, Hsi Jen shouted laughing:"who''s it now knocking at the door?
chapter-30	Is it possible that you do n''t even see the spirit of this proverb?
chapter-30	So is n''t Pao- yü less to blame than yourself, Miss?
chapter-30	So where was the necessity for any one to go?"
chapter-30	Where did I kick you?"
chapter-30	Yet how is it that you''ve run back in this heavy rain?"
chapter-30	he said, promptly smiling,"is it you who''ve come?
chapter-30	she shouted,"ca n''t you speak?"
chapter-49	As there''s fresh venison,she said,"would n''t it be nice to ask for a haunch and take it into the garden and prepare it ourselves?
chapter-49	But though you fancy to yourself that it is so, how can your tears have become scantier than they were?
chapter-49	Has our Hsüeh K''o come along with his sisters?
chapter-49	Have n''t you people had enough as yet?
chapter-49	How is it they''ve all arrived together? chapter-49 How often have I gone in for yarns?"
chapter-49	Is this a fact?
chapter-49	Just see how much thinner you are this year than you were last; and do n''t you yet look after your health? chapter-49 Our cousin Secunda,"Pao- yü explained,"does n''t also go in very much for verses, so, what would it matter if she were left out?"
chapter-49	What about peacock''s feathers?
chapter-49	What are you driving at?
chapter-49	What do you know?
chapter-49	Whence could one hunt up any better? chapter-49 Where did you get this?"
chapter-49	Where has this crowd of beggars turned up from?
chapter-49	Who''d ever have fancied that cousin Pao- ch''ai''s own cousin would be what he is? chapter-49 You''re having,"she smiled;"such dainties to eat, and do n''t you tell me?"
chapter-49	( When did you and Pao- ch''ai get to be such friends?)
chapter-49	And if we succeed in adding a few more to our number, wo n''t it be more fun for us?"
chapter-49	As luck would have it, it''s snowing again to- day, so wo n''t it be well to raise contributions among ourselves and have a meeting?
chapter-49	But can it possibly be that outside these few, there can be any more like them?"
chapter-49	But how was it possible for one so loquacious as Hsiang- yün to avoid the subject of verses, when Hsiang Ling repeatedly begged her for explanations?
chapter-49	But what are your views on the subject?"
chapter-49	But what is it that that mouth of yours keeps on jabbering?
chapter-49	Do you in any way behave like girls should?"
chapter-49	Going up to Hsi Jen, She Yüeh and Chi''ng Wen:"Do n''t you yet hasten to go and see them?"
chapter-49	Have they, I wonder, ever learnt how to write poetry or not?"
chapter-49	How could she therefore take offence?
chapter-49	It''s this:''What time did Meng Kuang receive Liang Hung''s candlestick?''
chapter-49	She feels also constrained to ask of the goddess Ch''ang O:''Why it is that she does not let the moon e''er remain round?''
chapter-49	The members are not all therefore in a fit state, so would n''t it be preferable if we waited until that girl Yün came?
chapter-49	We shall then be able to convene a full meeting; and wo n''t it be better?
chapter-49	What about the bathos of Tu Kung- pu; and the unadorned refinement of Wei Su- chou?
chapter-49	What also about Wen Pa- ch''a''s elegant diction; and Li I- shan''s abstruseness?
chapter-49	What do you think about her, Miss Tertia?"
chapter-49	What verses are you writing to- day?"
chapter-49	What will I care then if you have a whole deer raw and make yourselves ill over it?
chapter-49	When did she receive it?
chapter-49	Why what good ever comes out of that mouth of hers?"
chapter-49	Wo n''t this be better?
chapter-49	observed,"all you knew was to suspect that I( was in love with Pao- ch''ai); and have you now no faults to find?"
chapter-50	Can it be Shan T''ao?
chapter-50	Can this not be right?
chapter-50	Do you also sometimes come to your wits''ends; and run to the end of your tether?
chapter-50	For whom did you mean to act as go- between?
chapter-50	Have you got yours ready?
chapter-50	How comes it that she is in such good cheer?
chapter-50	How could it be completed by the close of the year?
chapter-50	How not in a good mood?
chapter-50	If we made him,Hsiang- yün resumed,"versify on:''In search of Miao Yü to beg for red plum blossom,''wo n''t it be full of fun?"
chapter-50	Is it out of any idea of filial piety that I came after you? chapter-50 Is n''t a glow- worm transformed from plants?"
chapter-50	Is there in that picture any such costume?
chapter-50	Now find the name of the rush?
chapter-50	The first part is all right,the party observed,"but how do you explain the last line?"
chapter-50	What has a glow- worm to do with flowers?
chapter-50	What other girl is that?
chapter-50	What performing monkey,Hsiang- yün asked,"has not had its tail cut off?"
chapter-50	What theme is it?
chapter-50	What were you playing at?
chapter-50	What''s there in that dish?
chapter-50	Why not write them out, and let us have a look at them?
chapter-50	You two have daily made a fool of me, and are you now going to fool her also?
chapter-50	Are you really not thoroughly ashamed of yourself?"
chapter-50	But is she too already engaged?"
chapter-50	But with that costume, and the plum- blossom at the back of her, to what does she bear a resemblance?"
chapter-50	But would Hsiang- yün allow any one to have a say?
chapter-50	Does its appearance speak of a colour of ordinary run?
chapter-50	I bring a jagged branch, but who in pity sings my shoulders thin?
chapter-50	In the mid- heavens it''s true, both wind and rain fleet by; But can one hear the tingling of the Buddhists''bell?
chapter-50	Is n''t it better that I should hold my peace, and drop the whole thing?"
chapter-50	Pao- ch''ai continued: In whose household is there a flute made of green jade?
chapter-50	So why should n''t you indite a few for us to guess?"
chapter-50	T''an Ch''un then continued: Could e''er the beauteous snow dread the nipping of frost?
chapter-50	There lies one frozen- stiff, but who asks him a word?
chapter-50	Where is the fife with plum bloom painted on?
chapter-50	Will this be all right or not?"
chapter-50	Wo n''t it be better therefore to compose a few on some simple objects; some which all of us, whether polished or unpolished, may be able to enjoy?"
chapter-05	He''s separated,they all ventured as they laughed,"by a distance of twenty or thirty li, and how can he be brought along?
chapter-05	How is it,asked Pao- yü,"that I did n''t see him?
chapter-05	If this,she said,"is really not nice, where are you going?
chapter-05	May I venture to trouble my Fairy,he said,"to take me along for a turn into the interior of each of these Boards?
chapter-05	This perfume,she said,"is not to be found in the world, and how could you discern what it is?
chapter-05	What is the meaning,therefore inquired Pao- yü,"of the Principal Record of the Twelve Maidens of Chin Ling?"
chapter-05	What is the name of this tea?
chapter-05	What is this place?
chapter-05	Where do you find the propriety,a nurse thereupon interposed,"of an uncle going to sleep in the room of a nephew''s wife?"
chapter-05	Are the generals and ministers who have been from ages of old still in the flesh, forsooth?
chapter-05	But would Pao- yü, upon hearing these words, submit to this decree?
chapter-05	Consider, how many drops of tears can there be in the eyes?
chapter-05	Do you maintain that their union will not be remarkable?
chapter-05	Her gracefulness?
chapter-05	Her modesty?
chapter-05	If the union will you say, be strange, how is it then that their love affair will be but empty words?
chapter-05	In the same way, this calamity of birth and the visitation of death, who is able to escape?
chapter-05	Like a dragon in motion wriggling in a stream; Her refinement?
chapter-05	Like a fir- tree growing in a barren plain; Her comeliness?
chapter-05	Like a white plum in spring with snow nestling in its broken skin; Her purity?
chapter-05	May I be allowed, I wonder, to do so?"
chapter-05	These were the sentiments affixed below: When riches will have flown will honours then avail?
chapter-05	This is the inevitable destiny of dissolution and continuance which prevails in the mortal world, and what need is there to indulge in useless grief?
chapter-05	What help is there, but Heaven''s will to brook?
chapter-05	What is her chastity like?
chapter-05	What was the germ of love?
chapter-05	What''s the need of staying here and beating this gourd of ennui?"
chapter-05	Where was she born?
chapter-05	Why how then is it that he has come to meet her again in this existence?
chapter-05	Why my brother was with me here last month; did n''t you see him?
chapter-05	and how could they continue to drop from autumn to winter and from spring to flow till summer time?
chapter-05	and whence does she come?
chapter-05	will depart, and dwell though you will in that mass of gauze, who is there who will know how to spoil you with any fond attention?
chapter-33	Are you really chiding me?
chapter-33	Father, why need you be angry?
chapter-33	Hitherto,he secretly mused,"I''ve never had any dealings with the Chung Shun mansion, and why is it that some one is despatched here to- day?"
chapter-33	How did these things come to master''s knowledge?
chapter-33	I made just one remark,she added,"and you could n''t stand it, and can Pao- yü likely put up with that death- working cane?
chapter-33	It is enough that you wo n''t read your books at home; but will you also go in for all these lawless and wrongful acts? chapter-33 On a hot broiling day like this,"he ventured, forcing a smile,"what made you, mother, get so angry as to rush over in person?
chapter-33	There''s been nothing up, so who has gone and jumped into the well?
chapter-33	What are you running about for?
chapter-33	What''s there left unsettled?
chapter-33	What''s there to make you fear, Master Secundus?
chapter-33	Why are you,exclaimed Chia Cheng,"drooping your head in such a melancholy mood, and indulging in all these moans?
chapter-33	Why is it,she asked,"that he was beaten just now without the least provocation; and that you did n''t run over soon to tell me a word about it?"
chapter-33	You come, Sir,he inquired,"at the instance of his royal highness, but what, I wonder, are the commands you have to give me?
chapter-33	A tip has also been given them; so how is it things are not settled?"
chapter-33	And do you yet come to advise me to spare him?
chapter-33	Are you ignorant of an essential point like this?
chapter-33	Are you still dissatisfied?
chapter-33	But as the son, I''ve brought up, is n''t worth a straw, to whom can I go and address a word?"
chapter-33	But as you assert that you do n''t know who this person is, how is it that that red sash has come to be attached to your waist?"
chapter-33	But would Chia Cheng listen to them?
chapter-33	Do n''t you yet bundle yourself away?
chapter-33	Do n''t you yet instantly run inside and fetch some rattan slings and a bench to carry him out of this on?
chapter-33	Does all you have not suffice to please you?
chapter-33	Is it likely, pray, that your heart is not yet satisfied, and that you wish to feast your eyes by seeing him die before you go?"
chapter-33	Was there any need for you to give him such a bitter lesson?
chapter-33	Were anything to happen now to make you forsake me, upon whom will you have me depend?"
chapter-33	Were these things to reach the ears of people outside, what will become of the reputation of our seniors?
chapter-33	What are you dallying in here for?
chapter-33	When by and bye you''ve incited him to commit parricide or regicide, you will at length, then, give up trying to dissuade me, eh?"
chapter-33	Where are the attendants who wait on you at school?"
chapter-33	You''ve no reason to be like this, so why is it that you go on in this way?"
chapter-44	And did n''t you see me, together with P''ing Erh, at your heels, stretching out our necks and calling out to you about ten times? chapter-44 And who are you, I wonder?
chapter-44	Are n''t you yet gratified?
chapter-44	Are you likewise going to start knocking people about?
chapter-44	But children of tender years are like greedy kittens, and how can one say for certain that they wo n''t do such things? chapter-44 Can it be, pray, that he dreaded to see me return home?
chapter-44	Dead, eh? chapter-44 Do n''t lady Feng and P''ing Erh possess the charms of handsome women?"
chapter-44	How is it,she next asked,"that I''m like a queen of hell, or like a''Yakcha''demon?
chapter-44	I''ve always thought highly of that wench,she said,"and how is it that she''s turned out to be secretly so bad?"
chapter-44	If there''s no one in the rooms, who told you to come out again?
chapter-44	Tell me what?
chapter-44	There was nothing up just now, so why is all this row for?
chapter-44	What business is that of yours?
chapter-44	What did he ask you to watch me for?
chapter-44	What was the matter?
chapter-44	What were you up to before? chapter-44 What''s the matter?"
chapter-44	What''s the use of making such a fuss about a mere trifle?
chapter-44	What''s this you say?
chapter-44	What''s up?
chapter-44	When she''s gone,Chia Lien rejoined,"and I marry another, the like of her, what will I again do?"
chapter-44	Why did you instead persist in running on?
chapter-44	Why do you implicate me,she said,"in things you say behind my back?"
chapter-44	Why, what serious matter could it ever have been?
chapter-44	You people,she railingly shouted,"go and do a lot of shameful things, and then you also deliberately involve me; but why?"
chapter-44	And are you still bent upon bandying words with me?"
chapter-44	And do you, venerable senior, still go on blowing her up?"
chapter-44	But had she not made you the means of giving vent to her spite, is it likely that she could very well have aired her grievances upon any one else?
chapter-44	But if, poor me, I''m so bad as not even to compare with a disorderly woman, how can I have the face to come and spend my life with you here?"
chapter-44	Can it be that you''d like to make me kneel at your feet before you let matters rest?
chapter-44	Do n''t you know what good manners mean and stand still?"
chapter-44	Had it not been for me, you would have done her bodily harm; and what would you feel like now?"
chapter-44	How is it that it has been my fate to bring upon myself the influence of this evil star?"
chapter-44	Is it for the sake of this sort of wenches that you beat your wife and belabour the inmates of your quarters?
chapter-44	It would be quite immaterial where he offered his sacrifices, and why must he repair to the riverside?
chapter-44	That courtesan swore at me and wished me dead; and did you too help her to curse me?
chapter-44	Where did I strike you, let me see?"
chapter-44	You came in for plenty of credit, and do you now go on jabber, jabber?
chapter-44	You were n''t far off from us either, so is it likely that you got deaf?
chapter-51	Are there any evil spirits waiting for you outside?
chapter-51	Ch''ing Wen, you say, has gone out,she proceeded laughing,"but how is it I never caught a glimpse of her?
chapter-51	Did you forsooth go out,She Yüeh remarked,"in this smart dress of a circus- performer?"
chapter-51	Do only aspen trees grow in waste burial grounds?
chapter-51	Have I got such a dreadful epidemic,she said,"that she fears that I shall bring it upon others?
chapter-51	He calls Hsi Jen,she smilingly rejoined,"so what''s that to do with me?
chapter-51	How about that?
chapter-51	How could I ever frighten her to death?
chapter-51	How could Madame Wang,lady Feng laughed,"ever give a thought to such trifles as these?
chapter-51	How much must one give him?
chapter-51	Is it likely, pray, that there are no fir and cypress trees? chapter-51 Is n''t this she?"
chapter-51	Is she not here warming herself? chapter-51 Is your head hot?"
chapter-51	Was n''t the one I saw just now a young lady,the doctor exclaimed with eagerness,"but a young man, eh?
chapter-51	When Dr. Wang comes,Pao- yü asked,"how much is he given?"
chapter-51	When did I get so delicate?
chapter-51	Who''ll go and fumble about again?
chapter-51	Wo n''t you two go to sleep,She Yüeh laughed,"but keep on chatting?
chapter-51	And how could you resist medicines which are too much for me?
chapter-51	Had a young lady fallen ill, would you ever have penetrated inside with such ease?"
chapter-51	Has any one picked up in there the likeness of a girl?
chapter-51	How could this ever do?
chapter-51	How ever were those a young lady''s rooms?
chapter-51	How fares these latter days the scenery in Sui T''i?
chapter-51	No matter what internal obstruction there may be, how could she ever stand citrus and sida?
chapter-51	On the vestiges of former times in Chung Shan: Renown and gain do they, at any time, fall to a woman''s share?
chapter-51	So how could the patient I saw have ever been a young man?"
chapter-51	So is n''t it better here?
chapter-51	Then raising the steelyard,"Which is the one tael mark?"
chapter-51	What child of three years old has n''t some notion about them, and how much more such as we?"
chapter-51	What do you say to that?"
chapter-51	What do you want?"
chapter-51	Who asked him to come?
chapter-51	Wo n''t your skin get chapped from the frost?"
chapter-51	Would n''t it be better then if two other stanzas were written?"
chapter-17	''The old cottage of a man of the Ch''in dynasty''is meant to imply a retreat from revolution, and how will it suit this place? chapter-17 Are forsooth the devices''the river Ch''i and the Chu Garden''not those of old authors?"
chapter-17	Gentlemen,he inquired,"what shall we write about this?"
chapter-17	Gentlemen,observed Chia Cheng,"what name do you propose for this place?"
chapter-17	Have you also given them,she felt constrained to ask,"the purse that I gave you?
chapter-17	He''s most reasonable in his arguments,all the visitors protested,"and why should he be called to task?"
chapter-17	How all unsuitable?
chapter-17	How ever can the liana and the ficus have such unusual scent?
chapter-17	How is it,he purposely exclaimed,"that when you should speak, you contrariwise do n''t?
chapter-17	If such be the case,madame Wang readily suggested,"why should n''t we bring her here?"
chapter-17	If that wo n''t do,the party smiled,"well then what about the four characters implying''An old cottage of a man of the Ch''in dynasty?''"
chapter-17	Of these how many kinds have by this time been got ready? chapter-17 These are indeed the only four characters,"rejoined Chia Cheng,"that could be suitably used; but what''s to be said as far as the scroll goes?"
chapter-17	What about regret?
chapter-17	What an idea?
chapter-17	What do you, gentlemen, think of this argument?
chapter-17	What would you then suggest?
chapter-17	What''s the device to be for this spot?
chapter-17	What''s the name of this water- gate?
chapter-17	Where does this water again issue from?
chapter-17	Which four characters?
chapter-17	Who has ever asked you about it?
chapter-17	Who of us has n''t seen a tiao?
chapter-17	Who presses your head down,Chia Cheng urged,"and uses force that you must come out with all these remarks?"
chapter-17	Would not the four characters:''a phoenix comes with dignified air,''be better?
chapter-17	''A natural landscape,''says, an ancient author in four words; and why?
chapter-17	But tell me, are there any that will do among the mottoes suggested just now by all the gentlemen?"
chapter-17	Having arrived in a short while,"How many sorts of things are there in all?"
chapter-17	Is it likely that you expect some one to request you to confer upon us the favour of your instruction?"
chapter-17	What name will it be fit to give it?"
chapter-17	When Chia Cheng heard these words, he exclaimed:"You''re talking still more stuff and nonsense?"
chapter-17	Would n''t the four characters be better denoting''an isthmus with smart weed, and a stream with flowers''?"
chapter-17	and forthwith entering the grotto, Chia Cheng went on to ask of Chia Chen,"Are there any boats or not?"
chapter-17	and how many more are short?"
chapter-17	have I given away to any one what was yours?"
chapter-17	the old lady will I fear be anxious on your account; and is it pray that you have n''t as yet had enough walking?"
chapter-27	And what about the tea- stove?
chapter-27	Are you gone clean off your head?
chapter-27	Are you sister quite well?
chapter-27	Do n''t you actually know her?
chapter-27	Even supposing she did overhear what we said,rejoined Chui Erh by way of answer,"why should she meddle in what does not concern her?
chapter-27	Has father sent for you these last few days?
chapter-27	How could she tell him where I wanted him to go?
chapter-27	How is it,consequently inquired Ying Ch''un,"that I do n''t see cousin Liu?
chapter-27	If you do n''t reward him,she heard some one continue,"what will I be able to tell him?
chapter-27	Is it things of this kind that you really want?
chapter-27	My dear cousin,he said,"did you lodge a complaint against me yesterday?
chapter-27	Sister, do you know where our lady Secunda is gone to?
chapter-27	What am I that I have to make shoes? chapter-27 What are you laughing for?"
chapter-27	What do the servant- boys know?
chapter-27	What is your name?
chapter-27	What reward will you give me?
chapter-27	What young lady''s servant are you,smiled lady Feng?
chapter-27	What''s to be done?
chapter-27	Where have you been hiding Miss Lin?
chapter-27	Who''s your mother?
chapter-27	Young ladies,she said, straining a smile,"do you perchance have any idea where our lady Secunda is gone to now?"
chapter-27	''Why,''she asked,''do I give you my savings to spend and do n''t, after all, let Huan Erh have them and enjoy them?''
chapter-27	And I can give them to any brother, elder or younger, I fancy; and who has a right to interfere with me?
chapter-27	But do you mean to let the cat out of the bag with any one else?
chapter-27	But is it likely that she would n''t have been well off with me?"
chapter-27	But when I asked her:''must you forsooth imitate the humming of a mosquito, in order to be accounted a handsome girl?''
chapter-27	But, reader, do you feel any interest in him?
chapter-27	By how much are you in your teens?"
chapter-27	Clothes are clothes, and shoes and socks are shoes and socks; and how is it that any grudges arise in the room of a mere servant- girl and old matron?
chapter-27	Could n''t we too listen to a single sentence of what you have to say?"
chapter-27	Hurriedly therefore leaving the company, she ran up to lady Feng and with smile heaped upon smile,"my lady,"she inquired,"what is it that you want?"
chapter-27	I wonder, however, whether she herself is willing or not?"
chapter-27	Is she forsooth fast asleep even at this late hour of the day?"
chapter-27	It''s just three days that I have n''t seen anything of you?"
chapter-27	Now, what do you say to this bargain?"
chapter-27	Should she have heard and anything perchance comes to light, what will we do?"
chapter-27	So how could you bear a grudge against her mother?"
chapter-27	So may n''t she be concealing herself in there?"
chapter-27	What reward could you have me give him?"
chapter-27	Why, my mother claims to be your daughter, my lady, and are you now going to recognise me too as your daughter?"
chapter-27	Will we, by and bye, pray, hear anything more about you?
chapter-27	she consequently cried,"is she really his daughter?"
chapter-06	As soon as it was daylight,she proceeded,"we started with all speed on our way here, and had we even so much as time to have any breakfast?"
chapter-06	Do n''t pull me up for talking too much,she said;"but who of us country people is n''t honest and open- hearted?
chapter-06	Had there been a way,observed Kou Erh, smiling sarcastically,"would I have waited up to this moment?
chapter-06	How is it you have n''t yet asked her to come in?
chapter-06	I''d like to ask you just a word, my young friend,she observed;"there''s a Mrs. Chou here; is she at home?"
chapter-06	Is it really she?
chapter-06	Is n''t it strange? chapter-06 My dear sister- in- law,"she replied,"as I gazed upon her, were my heart and eyes, pray, full of admiration or not?
chapter-06	To- day,she also asked of goody Liu,"were you simply passing by?
chapter-06	What can this thing be?
chapter-06	What did you dream of?
chapter-06	What did your father at home tell you to say?
chapter-06	What''s that you''re saying?
chapter-06	What''s the matter with you?
chapter-06	Where do you come from?
chapter-06	Who is it?
chapter-06	Who tells you to become a robber?
chapter-06	Why did n''t you tell me they had come before?
chapter-06	Among the party of attendants was an old man, who interposed,"Do n''t baffle her object,"he expostulated;"why make a fool of her?"
chapter-06	As the proverb has it: The Emperor himself has three families of poverty- stricken relatives; and how much more such as you and I?"
chapter-06	But who do you presume is this lady Secunda?
chapter-06	Chou?"
chapter-06	Chou?"
chapter-06	Having passed these remarks, she inquired of Mrs. Chou,"Have you let madame know, yes or no?"
chapter-06	How could you remember such as ourselves?"
chapter-06	How is it then that you do n''t find your way as far as there; for she may possibly remember old times, and some good may, no one can say, come of it?
chapter-06	I have besides no revenue collectors as relatives, or friends in official positions; and what way could we devise?
chapter-06	Is it likely you would have me go and play the robber?"
chapter-06	Jung?"
chapter-06	Lady Feng having again called Mrs. Chou, asked her:"When you first informed madame about them, what did she say?"
chapter-06	Mrs. Chou looked at her for some time before she at length smiled and replied,"Old goody Liu, are you well?
chapter-06	Old goody Liu was already by this time prostrated on the ground, and after making several obeisances,"How are you, my lady?"
chapter-06	Was it only to give our minds to eating fruit?"
chapter-06	What are the duties of the one you want, I wonder?"
chapter-06	Why, in whose household is there anything substantial?
chapter-06	You''ve come from far off with a pure heart and honest purpose, and how can I ever not show you the way how to see this living Buddha?
chapter-06	and how then could I speak as I should?"
chapter-06	communed goody Liu in her heart,"What can be its use?"
chapter-06	inquired Hsi Jen, smiling, as she tried to stifle her blushes,"and whence comes all this perspiration?"
chapter-06	or did you come with any express object?"
chapter-06	she asked of him;"and what did he send us over here to do?
chapter-06	what I said about her years back has come out quite correct; but from all you say, shall I to- day be able to see her?"
chapter-06	what sort of thing am I?
chapter-08	Am I not right? chapter-08 And are all the rest of the young ladies quite well?"
chapter-08	Are you again making fun of me?
chapter-08	Are you now going or not?
chapter-08	Did I ever mention that I was going?
chapter-08	Here you are with your nonsense again,Pao Ch''ai rejoined laughingly;"is a pill a thing to be taken recklessly?"
chapter-08	How are you? chapter-08 In that case,"observed Pao- yü,"what scent is it?"
chapter-08	Is it snowing?
chapter-08	Is n''t Hsüeh P''an at home?
chapter-08	Is sister( Pao Ch''ai) all right again?
chapter-08	Miss Lin has gone long ago,observed all of them, as they burst out laughing,"and do you offer her tea?"
chapter-08	My dear cousin,Pao- yü said to her smilingly,"tell me without any prevarication which of the three characters is the best written?"
chapter-08	My dear cousin,pleaded Pao- yü entreatingly,"how is it you''ve seen mine?"
chapter-08	Of whose family is she the mistress?
chapter-08	They''re all well done,she rejoined, with a smirk,"How is it you''ve written them so well?
chapter-08	What are these cold fragrance pills,remarked Pao- yü smiling,"that they have such a fine smell?
chapter-08	What perfume have you used, my cousin,he forthwith asked,"to fumigate your dresses with?
chapter-08	Where are the three characters I wrote?
chapter-08	Where did you see them?
chapter-08	Who told you to bring it?
chapter-08	Why should I urge him on?
chapter-08	Why should we wait for them?
chapter-08	Why then ask after her? chapter-08 But did she ever imagine that I would freeze to death?
chapter-08	How is it that you at once do what she bids you, with even greater alacrity than you would an imperial edict?"
chapter-08	How is it, cousin, that you did n''t understand what I meant to imply?"
chapter-08	Is it forsooth nice to think that people have n''t so much as a hand- stove, and that one has fussily to be sent over from home?
chapter-08	Is it perhaps, who knows, that aunt is a stranger in this establishment, and that we have in fact no right to come over here to see her?"
chapter-08	Now were he to come to- day, and I to come to- morrow, would n''t there be, by a division of this kind, always some one with you every day?
chapter-08	Pao- yü and the rest lost no time in rising and offering her a seat, whereupon Pao Ch''ai added with a smile,"How can you say such things?"
chapter-08	She perused these lines twice, and, turning round, she asked Ying Erh laughingly:"Why do n''t you go and pour the tea?
chapter-08	The nurse called out to them and stopped them,"Have you two gentlemen,"she said,"come out from seeing master?"
chapter-08	When will you give us a few sheets to stick on the wall?"
chapter-08	and wo n''t you yet from this time change this habit of yours?
chapter-08	are you quite well again, sister?"
chapter-08	asked Pao- yü smiling;"what about sister Hsi Jen?"
chapter-08	eagerly observed Pao- yü with a grin, when he caught these words,"are there really eight characters too on your necklet, cousin?
chapter-08	gently a bit; is it likely you''ve never seen any one put one on before?
chapter-24	But since you belong to this room, how is it I do n''t know you?
chapter-24	But why do n''t you attend to any of those duties that would bring you to my notice?
chapter-24	Do n''t you even recognise him? chapter-24 Have you heard what he said?"
chapter-24	How far are you in your teens this year?
chapter-24	I wonder,interposed Ch''iu Wen with alacrity,"who it is that will bring the workmen to- morrow, and supervise the works?"
chapter-24	If it be really the case that all my cousins have come over,Pao- yü ventured with a smirk,"how is it that I do n''t see them?"
chapter-24	My dear child,Pu Shih- jen exclaimed,"had I anything that I could call my own, your uncle as I am, would n''t I feel bound to do something for you?
chapter-24	My senior aunt, you said you had something to tell me, Pao- yü observed; what''s it, I wonder?
chapter-24	There are even many,she explained,"that are strangers to you; and is it only myself?
chapter-24	What are you in such a hurry for?
chapter-24	What are you staring vacantly for?
chapter-24	What can there possibly be to tell you?
chapter-24	What''s this that you''re driving at?
chapter-24	When was I ever in the room?
chapter-24	Why should I allude to it?
chapter-24	An ingenious wife can not make boiled rice without raw rice; and what would you have me do?
chapter-24	Besides, have I forsooth had a single acre of land or a couple of houses, the value of which I''ve run through as soon as it came into my hands?
chapter-24	But do n''t we forsooth, even so much as come up to you?
chapter-24	But this remark was scarcely ended when they heard his wife say:"Are you again in the clouds?
chapter-24	But where do you come from at this time?"
chapter-24	Chia Yün upon hearing this propitious language, hastily drew near one step, and designedly asked:"Does really uncle often refer to me?"
chapter-24	Had you told me just one word at an early hour, what could n''t have been brought about?
chapter-24	Now, reader, do you want to know the sequel?
chapter-24	Secundus?"
chapter-24	and is n''t it better than he should return home?
chapter-24	and is n''t this raising yourself up li by li?
chapter-24	and you just take that looking- glass and see for yourself, whether you be fit to serve tea and to hand water or not?"
chapter-24	where were you off to now?"
chapter-47	After all the difficulty we''ve had in meeting,Pao- yü remarked,"would n''t it be better were you and I to go away together in the evening?"
chapter-47	As long as you''re there,Hsüeh P''an said,"what will I want my home for?"
chapter-47	But can you tear yourself away from your home to spend the night outside the city walls?
chapter-47	Did n''t I want to have my fortune told?
chapter-47	Do n''t we too think as much?
chapter-47	Do you go on in this way?
chapter-47	Do you now know what stuff I''m made of?
chapter-47	Everything is over long ago,Chia Lien observed,"and can it be that she''ll cap the whole thing by blowing me up too?
chapter-47	Had you waited until she had gone home, could n''t you have asked her any amount of questions you may have liked? chapter-47 Have you been recently to Ch''in Ch''ung''s grave?"
chapter-47	How could I not go?
chapter-47	How is it,Hsiang- lien laughed,"that when people treat you with a sincere heart, you do n''t, after all, believe them?"
chapter-47	I''m no fool,eagerly exclaimed Hsüeh P''an,"and how could I not believe you?
chapter-47	I''ve only now returned,she observed to the waiting- maid,"and what shall I go again for?
chapter-47	In that case,dowager lady Chia rejoined,"why did n''t you come straight in; but behaved again in that mysterious way?"
chapter-47	Is it anything so very urgent that you had to say it this very moment?
chapter-47	Is it really so?
chapter-47	Is your friendship real,he smiled,"or is it only a sham?"
chapter-47	Uncle Hsüeh,he laughed,"you daily go in for lewd dalliance; but have you to- day come to dissipate in a reed- covered pit?
chapter-47	What are you afraid of? chapter-47 Where''s your Madame Hsing?"
chapter-47	Who is outside?
chapter-47	Who''s there stupid enough to say that your venerable ladyship''s heart is set upon money?
chapter-47	Why is it you''re so huffed,old lady Chia asked,"that you do n''t even shuffle for me?"
chapter-47	Would you go and kill any one,dowager lady Chia asked,"that he might instigate you to?
chapter-47	where are you off to?
chapter-47	And why did you beguile me here to give me a beating?"
chapter-47	Are we four ladies to play, or are we to add one or two more persons to our number?"
chapter-47	As I''ll be able to tell Madame Hsing to return, and have a share of the fun, wo n''t it be well for me to go?"
chapter-47	As soon as he reached the main entrance, he came across Hsüeh P''an, bawling out boisterously,"Who let young Liu- erh go?"
chapter-47	But glancing at him with the corner of his eye,"My dear brother,"he smiled,"what makes you ask me such a thing?
chapter-47	But since this be the case, how am I, who do n''t even know the way, to find your whereabouts if you are to go ahead of me?"
chapter-47	But were she now to go, what kind of creature would they hunt up again to press into my service?
chapter-47	Can I ever dream of winning?
chapter-47	Do n''t you yet pack yourself off from my presence?"
chapter-47	Do you still live in fear and trembling lest he should put his monkey up?
chapter-47	Every one, even up to Madame Wang, and Pao- yü, have alike received a rap on the knuckles, and are you also going now to fill up the gap?"
chapter-47	How is it, venerable senior, that you do n''t yet know that he turns a deaf ear to me?
chapter-47	We were in the middle of a chat full of zest, and how is it they''ve all dispersed?"
chapter-47	When Pao- yü heard his intention,"Why is this?"
chapter-47	When have you been so full of zeal before?
chapter-47	Who told you to play the wrong card?"
chapter-47	Wo n''t you behave in a proper manner?
chapter-47	Would I not at present have to worry my own mind, instead of leaving things to others?
chapter-21	Do I know?
chapter-21	Do these words allude to me?
chapter-21	Do you also know what anguish means?
chapter-21	Do you ask me?
chapter-21	Do you mean to say,Hsi Jen insinuated with a sardonic smile,"that your cousin Pao- yü has leisure to stay at home?"
chapter-21	Does n''t your mind yet see for itself?
chapter-21	How many sisters have you got?
chapter-21	I do n''t agree to that,Tai- yü rejoined;"are you people, pray, all of one mind to do nothing but make fun of me?"
chapter-21	If I be wanton, it''s my own look- out;P''ing Erh answered, from outside the window, with a grin,"and who told you to arouse your affections?
chapter-21	If they do n''t allude to you,she continued,"to whom do they?"
chapter-21	If you''re bent upon chatting,she urgently inquired, upon seeing P''ing Erh outside the window,"why do n''t you go into the room?
chapter-21	Is there anything in excess?
chapter-21	Is there anything short or not?
chapter-21	It''s enough,she rejoined,"that there''s nothing short; and how could there really turn out to be anything over and above?"
chapter-21	My dear cousin,Pao- yü continued smirkingly,"how is it that you combed it for me in former times?"
chapter-21	The other day,she observed,"some things were taken out, and have you brought them all in or not?"
chapter-21	There''s not a single person in the room,P''ing Erh rejoined,"and what shall I stay and do with him?"
chapter-21	What have I been up to again,he asked,"that you''re once more at me with your advice?
chapter-21	What''s your name?
chapter-21	Where shall I go over to?
chapter-21	Which of them are you?
chapter-21	Who gave you this name?
chapter-21	Who ventures to make fun of you?
chapter-21	You should really be called Hui Ch''i,( latent fragrance), that would be proper; and why such stuff as Hui Hsiang,( orchid fragrance)?
chapter-21	And did she come to know about it would she again ever forgive me?"
chapter-21	But espying She Yüeh enter the room, he said with alacrity:"What''s up with your sister?"
chapter-21	But suddenly, she saw Pao- ch''ai come in and inquire:"Where''s cousin Pao- yü gone?"
chapter-21	But when did I hear you, pray, give me a word of advice of any kind?"
chapter-21	Do you forsooth mean to imply that my wish is to become your tool?
chapter-21	How can I know what goes on between you two?"
chapter-21	How ever could she come up to you?"
chapter-21	Hsi Jen did not make any reply to his first question, and it was only when he had repeated it that Hsi Jen remarked:"Do you ask me?
chapter-21	Hsi Jen immediately picked up the hair- pin, as she remarked:"What''s up with you at this early hour of the morning?
chapter-21	Hsi Jen replied;"and do you still expect me to tell you?"
chapter-21	Is n''t it?"
chapter-21	Pao- yü observed advisingly;"and had n''t you made sport of her, would she have presumed to have said anything about you?"
chapter-21	Whether you listen or not is of no consequence; and is it worth while that you should behave as you do?"
chapter-21	and what do you mean, instead, by running out, and speaking with the window between?"
chapter-21	but from this time forth, I''ll become mute, and not say one word to you; and what if I do?"
chapter-21	have you still got this failing?
chapter-21	she rejoined;"do I know?
chapter-21	to which question Pao- yü replied:"Do you call this early?
chapter-21	when will you turn a new leaf?"
chapter-39	Are your eyes and teeth still good?
chapter-39	Can it be that you have n''t yet enough to meet your own expenses with?
chapter-39	Have n''t you even enough gumption for such a trifling job as this?
chapter-39	Have you discovered the place?
chapter-39	How could every one have had any?
chapter-39	How could we rise up to her standard?
chapter-39	How ever could she spare the time to get as far as here?
chapter-39	I expect you have seen our lady?
chapter-39	Is it likely that she has n''t yet enough money for her own requirements?
chapter-39	Is n''t it better that we should break up?
chapter-39	Or is it that she''s still not satisfied? chapter-39 This month''s allowances,"she asked,"have n''t yet been issued, not even to our old mistress and Madame Wang; why is it?"
chapter-39	Venerable relative,dowager lady Chia asked,"how old are you this year?"
chapter-39	Was it ever a girl?
chapter-39	Were I even to have too much,P''ing Erh smiled,"what could she do to me?"
chapter-39	Were there, for instance, no Yüan Yang in our venerable senior''s apartments, how would it ever do? chapter-39 What about it?"
chapter-39	What book, I wonder, have you again been reading, master?
chapter-39	What does it matter? chapter-39 What fine things have you got that the fear lest people should take it away, prompts you to carry this about you?
chapter-39	What happened after that?
chapter-39	What have you again got to say?
chapter-39	What was that girl up to, taking the firewood in that heavy fall of snow?
chapter-39	What''s this hard thing?
chapter-39	What''s up that it''s so pressing?
chapter-39	What, if she had got frostbitten and fallen ill?
chapter-39	Why is it,smiled Hsi Jen,"that this gives you such a start?"
chapter-39	Why need you again distress your mind?
chapter-39	With a figure like this of mine,old goody Liu demurred,"how could I very well appear before her?
chapter-39	Am I not, you''ve seen for yourselves, a person to bear with people?
chapter-39	And what''s the use of her still going on bothering herself in this way?"
chapter-39	But if, verily, there is, wo n''t you also lay up for yourself a store of good deeds?
chapter-39	But would n''t any one, who is not acquainted with actual facts, take you for a lady and a mistress?"
chapter-39	Commencing with Madame Wang herself, who is it who could muster sufficient courage to expostulate with the old lady?
chapter-39	Had I not also once, just remember, two girls, when your senior master Chu was alive?
chapter-39	How is it she has n''t come?"
chapter-39	Now is n''t this having enlisted our mistress''sympathies?
chapter-39	Our old lady also happened to overhear what we said, and she inquired:''who is old goody Liu?''
chapter-39	She''s only a country woman; and will an old dame like her stand any chaff from you?"
chapter-39	So is n''t this coming in for consideration, when least unexpected?"
chapter-39	This will be better, wo n''t it?
chapter-39	Upon seeing, the story explains, P''ing Erh arrive, they unanimously inquired,"What is your mistress up to?
chapter-39	Who do you think it was, venerable star of longevity?
chapter-39	You are your mistress''general key; and what do you want this other key for?"
chapter-39	You send me on this sort of wild goose chase and make me go and knock my head about, and how can you ever say that I''m good for nothing?"
chapter-22	Do I know what to do?
chapter-22	Is n''t this a scented stick to show the watch?
chapter-22	Is this a cracker?
chapter-22	On the 21st,lady Feng explained,"is cousin Hsüeh''s birthday, and what do you, after all, purpose doing?"
chapter-22	Pao- yü, may I ask you something? chapter-22 This is, however, anonymous; whose work is it?"
chapter-22	This lad,lady Feng observed smiling,"is when dressed up( as a girl), a living likeness of a certain person; did you notice it just now?"
chapter-22	This offence can, anyhow, be condoned; but, what is more, why did you also wink at Yün Erh? chapter-22 Was it necessary that you should have done so much as made the comparison,"Tai- yü urged,"and was there any need of even any laughter from you?
chapter-22	We''ll go to- morrow,Hsiang- yün rejoined;"for what''s the use of remaining here any longer-- to look at people''s mouths and faces?"
chapter-22	What about the whole company, and they and I?
chapter-22	What''s the hurry?
chapter-22	What''s there impossible about this?
chapter-22	Who has, pray,he hastily inquired smilingly, after arriving at the end of his reflections,"indulged in Buddhistic mysteries?
chapter-22	And is this now enough for wines, and enough for the theatricals?"
chapter-22	But am I here to afford you people amusement that you will compare me to an actress, and make the whole lot have a laugh at me?"
chapter-22	But raise your eyes and look about you; who is n''t your venerable ladyship''s son and daughter?
chapter-22	For have I, do you imagine, gone to the trouble of having a performance and laying a feast for their special benefit?
chapter-22	For what purpose have I for all these days racked my heart with woes?
chapter-22	How could you know the beauties of this play?
chapter-22	I myself am looked upon as having the gift of the gab, but why is it that I ca n''t talk in such a wise as to put down this monkey?
chapter-22	So long as you do n''t pry into my doings it will be enough; and will I go so far as to bear you a grudge?"
chapter-22	This was your idea was n''t it?
chapter-22	What is most valuable is a precious thing; and what is most firm is jade, but what value do you possess and what firmness is innate in you?"
chapter-22	What is this hazy notion about relatives distant or close?
chapter-22	What was this idea which you had resolved in your mind?
chapter-22	When Hsi Jen perceived the tone, so unlike that of other days, with which these words were pronounced:"What''s this that you''re saying?"
chapter-22	Whence cometh all this mixed confusion on a day so still?
chapter-22	and had she given me any offence, what concern would that too have been of yours?"
chapter-22	and is it likely, pray, that in the future there will only be cousin Pao- yü to carry you, our old lady, on his head, up the Wu T''ai Shan?
chapter-22	and why then will you get angry with me?"
chapter-22	and you again were afraid lest she should have hurt my feelings, but, had I had a row with her, what would that have been to you?
chapter-22	but to what really does it owe its rise?"
chapter-22	was n''t it perhaps that if she played with me, she would be demeaning herself, and making herself cheap?
chapter-43	According to you, what should be done?
chapter-43	But there are still those two secondary wives; are they to give anything or not? chapter-43 But what will, I wonder, be the way adopted for raising contributions?"
chapter-43	Congratulations are a small matter?
chapter-43	How is it that we forgot all about them? chapter-43 How is it that your elder sister- in- law''s is n''t here?"
chapter-43	If the junior ladies subscribe twelve taels each,Lai Ta''s mother went on to ask,"we must, as a matter of course, also come one degree lower; eh?"
chapter-43	Is it all there?
chapter-43	Is the''Water Spirit''monastery in this neighbourhood?
chapter-43	Is your mistress alone to be allowed to do dishonest acts,Mrs. Yu laughed,"and am I not to be free to bestow a favour?"
chapter-43	Just try and guess where I''ve been?
chapter-43	Pray, may I ask,Madame Wang then inquired,"whether you''re feeling nearly well again now?"
chapter-43	There''s all that money; and is n''t it yet enough?
chapter-43	Were it not that I consider the dutiful attentions you''ve all along shown me would I ever be ready to humour you?
chapter-43	Where are we off to?
chapter-43	Where could they be procured in a deserted and lonely place like this? chapter-43 Where does this road lead to?"
chapter-43	Where have you been,dowager lady Chia was the first to ask,"that you come back at this hour?
chapter-43	Who brought it?
chapter-43	Whose shares are wanting?
chapter-43	Why,she said,"do you all listen to him and readily go wherever he pleases without even reporting a single word?
chapter-43	And will not this prove a source of pleasure to both sides?"
chapter-43	But Pei Ming noticing his dilemma,"What do you want incense for?"
chapter-43	But having been unable to discover one;"What about, the platform round that well?"
chapter-43	But what do you do it for?"
chapter-43	But where did you really go?"
chapter-43	But why ever are those two miserable?
chapter-43	But, reader, do you wish to know the sequel?
chapter-43	Continuing, she asked,"Did you have anything to eat?
chapter-43	Do n''t you yet go and pay your congratulations to your cousin?"
chapter-43	Even though he may have had something pressing to do, why did n''t he utter just one word, but stealthily bolted away on his own hook?
chapter-43	How will you show me any thanks?"
chapter-43	If you needed them, why did n''t you speak somewhat sooner, and we could have brought them along with us?
chapter-43	Not to breathe a word about the money that I''ll have to contribute, must I have trouble and annoyance to bear as well?
chapter-43	Or did you get any sort of fright, eh?"
chapter-43	This done,"Where are they holding the banquet?"
chapter-43	Turning his head round:"Is there any place here,"he asked,"where incense is sold?"
chapter-43	Were there no one uneasy about us, well, what would it matter if we got back into town as late as we possibly could?
chapter-43	What do you say, will this do or not?"
chapter-43	When they have money, they uselessly give it to other people; and is n''t it better that we should get hold of it, and enjoy ourselves with it?"
chapter-43	Why, was it simply on this account?
chapter-43	Will this sort of thing ever do?
chapter-43	Would not this have been more convenient?"
chapter-43	You''ve already taken upon yourself two portions; and do you now also volunteer sixteen taels on behalf of my elder sister- in- law?
chapter-35	Have his food and water been replenished?
chapter-35	How can you carry it, so very hot as it is, the whole way there?
chapter-35	How could you get through them all in a little time?
chapter-35	How is it,she cogitated within herself,"that she does n''t come to see Pao- yü?
chapter-35	How is it,they exclaimed laughingly,"that you two drop in just the nick of time?
chapter-35	How lucky it is you''ve reminded me?
chapter-35	How many kinds of designs are there?
chapter-35	I have n''t yet worn out all the clothes I have,Pao- ch''ai explained,"and why should I have more made?"
chapter-35	If this is n''t nice, what''s nice?
chapter-35	In what former existence did you commit such evil that your retribution in the present one is so apparent? chapter-35 It is so yellow and bright,"rejoined Pao- ch''ai,"and what''s the use of cleaning it again?"
chapter-35	Of what design?
chapter-35	Sister,he argued,"what makes you say so?
chapter-35	There are visitors here,Hsi Jen smiled,"and how can I very well go?"
chapter-35	What about urgently needed?
chapter-35	What can we want her for? chapter-35 What do you want all that lot for?"
chapter-35	What do you, after all, mean by keeping on pressing me so?
chapter-35	What goes well with brown?
chapter-35	What makes you say so?
chapter-35	What was the kind of design you made for Miss Tertia the other day?
chapter-35	What was your original surname?
chapter-35	What would you like to eat,likewise inquired Madame Wang,"so that I may, on my return, send it round to you?"
chapter-35	What''s the colour of your handkerchief?
chapter-35	What''s the fun of a thing like this?
chapter-35	Where do her qualities lie?
chapter-35	Whether I have it or not, what''s that to you?
chapter-35	Would n''t it be preferable to plait a net, and put the jade in it?
chapter-35	You yourself,observed Yü Ch''uan- erh,"have been scalded, and do you keep on asking about myself?"
chapter-35	You''ve already,she said,"been the cause of quite enough trouble, and do you now provoke mother to have another cry?"
chapter-35	Your cough,smiled Tzu Chüan,"has recently got a trifle better, and wo n''t you again take your medicine?
chapter-35	As he put on a smiling expression,"When did I,"he asked,"make mother cry?
chapter-35	But after a protracted silence he felt impelled to again force a smile, and to ask:"Who told you to bring these things over to me?"
chapter-35	But as for waste, what does he mind?
chapter-35	But this answer was still on his lips, when they overheard some one outside remark:"How is it that everything is so quiet?"
chapter-35	But were I to go on wasting your time, wo n''t you feel upset from hunger?
chapter-35	But why should you two be daily worried; and all through me alone?
chapter-35	Did he come again, I wonder, after I left yesterday and make any more trouble or not?"
chapter-35	Do you agree to that?
chapter-35	Has she got the time to spare?"
chapter-35	Have you come together?"
chapter-35	It was made once only, and that at the time when the moulds were brought; and how is it that he has come to think of it to- day?"
chapter-35	Now, is n''t this being a regular fool?"
chapter-35	Now, tell me, is n''t this ridiculous, eh?
chapter-35	On her return home, she found her mother alone combing her hair and having a wash."Why do you run over at this early hour of the morning?"
chapter-35	Pao- ch''ai heard him speak; and turning round:"How about no time?"
chapter-35	The only thing is what colour will suit it best?"
chapter-35	To put what in?"
chapter-35	Tzu Chüan laughed,"How did he ever manage to commit it to memory?"
chapter-35	Wait, and I''ll call that child of wrath to order; for were anything to happen to you, from whom will I have anything to hope?"
chapter-35	What do you say to that?"
chapter-35	What''s there in this to fill you with conjectures?"
chapter-35	Which of my eyes however can brook looking at you going on in that way?"
chapter-32	As you come from the garden,Madame Wang inquired,"did you see anything of your cousin Pao- yü?"
chapter-32	But did you see the pair of shoes I was pasting the other day? chapter-32 But when did you find it?"
chapter-32	Could you tell them so?
chapter-32	Cousin Lin,he smiled,"where are you off to?
chapter-32	Do n''t you truly fathom the depth of my words?
chapter-32	Have you perchance heard of any strange occurrence?
chapter-32	How could one bamboozle him?
chapter-32	How is it that she jumped into the well when there was nothing to make her do so?
chapter-32	I ca n''t make out what you''re driving at; tell me what''s this about making me easy or uneasy?
chapter-32	If I do allude to this,answered Shih Hsiang- yün,"what does it matter?
chapter-32	If you by and bye also lose your seal, will you likely banish it at once from your mind, and never make an effort to discover it?
chapter-32	Is it father''s doing?
chapter-32	The tears in your eyes are not dry yet and do you still tell me a fib?
chapter-32	What can you have to tell me?
chapter-32	What do you say to my doing a few things for you?
chapter-32	What does he want him for, on a scalding day like this? chapter-32 What earthly use is it of hurrying a tailor just now to prepare clothes for her?
chapter-32	What is it?
chapter-32	What was that girl Hsiang- yün doing in your quarters?
chapter-32	What you say is all very well,rejoined Madame Wang;"but can it be that it is n''t distasteful to you?"
chapter-32	What''s there to make my mind uneasy?
chapter-32	Where do you come from?
chapter-32	Where is cousin Pao off to now in such a hurry, got up in that fine attire?
chapter-32	Who am I to venture to trouble you to make shoes for me? chapter-32 Who gave it to you?"
chapter-32	Why mind him?
chapter-32	Why should I be crying,she replied,"when there is no reason to do so?"
chapter-32	Why, do you mean to say that I''ve throughout made such poor use of my love for you as not to be able to even divine your feelings? chapter-32 And is not this all my fault?
chapter-32	And while at home, when did I not at every instant say something about you?"
chapter-32	As for the ring itself, what is its worth?
chapter-32	Do n''t you quick get yourself off?"
chapter-32	Hastening up to her:"Do you still give vent to such language?"
chapter-32	Have I really become a slave to you people?
chapter-32	How could she have ever had such a fiery disposition?
chapter-32	How is it that you''re crying again?
chapter-32	I have a couple of suits I made the other day and wo n''t it save trouble were I to go and bring them for her?
chapter-32	Then pushing him away from her,"what is it you''re saying?"
chapter-32	Then why do you knock your hands and kick your feet about in this wise?"
chapter-32	This reached my ears long ago, and do you still try to dupe me by asking me again now to make something more for you?
chapter-32	Were you to ask any one of those men to execute your work, who could very well refuse to do it?"
chapter-32	Who has once more hurt your feelings?"
chapter-32	Why do n''t they, while this fiery temperature lasts, stay at home, where it''s much cooler, instead of gadding about all over the place?"
chapter-32	Yet what is there in this to make your veins protrude, and to so provoke you as to bedew your whole face with perspiration?"
chapter-32	Yet, why should this Pao- ch''ai step in again between us?"
chapter-32	she smilingly exclaimed,"are you dreaming away in a hot broiling sun like this?"
chapter-36	Are there still flies or mosquitos in here? chapter-36 Are they paid in full month after month?"
chapter-36	Aunt,rejoined lady Feng smiling,"was I likely, pray, wrong in what I said?"
chapter-36	But how did I manage to go to sleep and show such utter discourtesy to her? chapter-36 But were you to talk a little slower, would n''t it be a saving of exertion for you?"
chapter-36	Ca n''t your ladyship fathom even this?
chapter-36	Can it hold a flag in its beak, or do any tricks?
chapter-36	Did they tell you anything?
chapter-36	Do you go off in a tantrum in this hot broiling sun?
chapter-36	Does a big strapping fellow like this,Pao- ch''ai laughed,"still wear such things?"
chapter-36	Has n''t he yet woke up?
chapter-36	How can,he cried,"one ever believe what bonzes and Taoist priests say?
chapter-36	How could you people ever rightly estimate Hsi Jen''s qualities?
chapter-36	How ever could I have been such a fool to- day,he proceeded,"as to go and throw away a tael or two to purchase this bird?
chapter-36	How much did you give for it?
chapter-36	I just want to ask you,Madame Wang went on to inquire,"how much Mrs. Chao and Mrs. Chou are allowed monthly?"
chapter-36	Is it likely that I am bound to serve even highway robbers? chapter-36 What about driving mosquitoes away?"
chapter-36	What are you driving at?
chapter-36	What decent things could such as they have had to tell me?
chapter-36	What has your ladyship had to lay before Madame Wang,they remarked,"that you''ve been talking away this length of time?
chapter-36	What kind of bird is that?
chapter-36	What''s it?
chapter-36	Where''s brother Ch''iang gone to?
chapter-36	Who ever said you were wrong?
chapter-36	And did they ever, on any single instance, obtain their pay at the proper time and date?"
chapter-36	Both these deaths do confer, after life is extinct, the fame of great men upon them; but is n''t it, in fact, better for them not to die?
chapter-36	But must they too have designs upon this job?
chapter-36	Could one therefore, pray, say that they had no other alternative?
chapter-36	Did n''t you find it hot work?"
chapter-36	Did they happen to come in?"
chapter-36	For whom is this, that it''s worth your while wasting so much labour on it?"
chapter-36	How and why is this?"
chapter-36	Lady Feng acquiesced to each one of her recommendations, and, pushing Mrs. Hsüeh,"Aunt,"she inquired,"have you heard her proposal?
chapter-36	Lady Feng thought the question so very strange that she hastened to exclaim by way of reply:"How are they not paid in full?"
chapter-36	There are still a couple to be found in other people''s rooms and wo n''t you, Madame, conform with the rule?
chapter-36	What about a match between gold and jade?
chapter-36	What have I all along maintained?
chapter-36	When payments hitherto were effected outside, what month were they not short of money?
chapter-36	Why, if you do n''t go, wo n''t you make her imagine things?
chapter-36	Wo n''t this be a good plan?"
chapter-36	Wo n''t this look well?"
chapter-36	You distinctly fetch it to make fun of us, and mimick us, and do you still ask me whether I like it or not?"
chapter-36	and why do yet use that fly- flap for, to drive what away?"
chapter-20	Am I only free to play with you?
chapter-20	Are you my keeper?
chapter-20	Go after your business, and have done,She Yüeh interposed laughingly;"what''s the use of your coming and asking questions of people?"
chapter-20	Had we all gone to play,She Yüeh added,"to whom would the charge of this apartment have been handed over?
chapter-20	How have I got a glib tongue?
chapter-20	If all we do is to go on nagging in this way,Pao- yü remarked smiling,"will I any more be afraid to die?
chapter-20	In this felicitous first moon what are you blubbering for?
chapter-20	Since you remain in here, there''s less need for me to go,resumed She Yüeh,"for we two can chat and play and laugh; and wo n''t that be nice?"
chapter-20	Under the bed,continued Pao- yü,"is heaped up all that money, and is n''t it enough yet for you to lose from?"
chapter-20	Were I,Hsi Jen smiled sardonically,"to lose my temper over such concerns, would I be able to stand one moment longer in this room?
chapter-20	What can we two do? chapter-20 What have you come back again for?"
chapter-20	What''s the good,protested Pao- yü,"of talking in this happy first moon of dying and of living?"
chapter-20	Who is it?
chapter-20	Who''s gone mad again?
chapter-20	Why say I did n''t wear it?
chapter-20	Will you also screen him?
chapter-20	Your words are quite devoid of sense,Tai- yü added;"whether you go or not what''s that to me?
chapter-20	But reader, do you want to know the sequel?
chapter-20	But what you''ve lost are simply a few cash, and do you behave in this manner?
chapter-20	How could I ever presume to pick out hers?"
chapter-20	How much did you lose?"
chapter-20	I simply went over to her place for a run, and that quite casually, and will you insinuate all these things?"
chapter-20	Is it indeed she?
chapter-20	Is it likely that gentlemen will cheat you?
chapter-20	Lin Tai- yü just happened to be standing by, and having set the question to Pao- yü"Where do you come from?"
chapter-20	Perceiving him in this plight,"What is the matter?"
chapter-20	The only thing is that if she goes on, day after day, doing nothing else than clamour in this manner, how can she let people get along?
chapter-20	What place is there that you ca n''t go to and play; and who told you to run over there and bring upon yourself all this shame?"
chapter-20	and do n''t you yet put down the money?"
chapter-20	and who has n''t been dismounted from her horse by Hsi Jen?
chapter-20	and whom would you like me to go and ask; who''s it that does n''t back you?
chapter-20	exclaimed Mrs. Chao,"who bade you( presume so high) as to get up into that lofty tray?
chapter-20	she interposed,"and what good would come by hurting her feelings?
chapter-20	she remarked,"and do you pay any notice to me?
chapter-20	what''s that to do with you?"
chapter-20	what''s the use of coming out with all you''ve said?
chapter-20	who and what kind of person have I become to do such a thing?
chapter-29	Do you again make use of such language amongst ourselves? chapter-29 Has this been assigned the second place?"
chapter-29	Have you kept all right and in good health, throughout, venerable Senior? chapter-29 I''m smashing what belongs to me,"remarked Pao- yü with a cynical smile,"and what has that to do with you people?"
chapter-29	Is it indeed Yün- erh who has it?
chapter-29	Just go and look at the plays,she therefore replied,"what''s the use of boxing yourself up at home?"
chapter-29	My hands are n''t clean,replied the Taoist Chang,"so how could I very well have taken hold of it?
chapter-29	Never mind,smiled Pao- ch''ai,"it''s too hot; besides, what plays have n''t I seen?
chapter-29	Now that she lives in our house,remarked Pao- yü,"how is it that even I have n''t seen anything of it?"
chapter-29	Of what kind of old story does''the record of the white snake,''treat?
chapter-29	Those people are all divines, and where could they have rummaged up these things? chapter-29 Well, since that be the case,"added old lady Chia,"why do you, at your age, try your strength by running about the whole day long?
chapter-29	What are you standing there for?
chapter-29	What do you people rush over here for again?
chapter-29	What''s up again?
chapter-29	Who was it?
chapter-29	And what need is there to put an end to yourself for my sake?
chapter-29	And why use a tray to lay it on?"
chapter-29	Are n''t you afraid of going down to that Hell, where tongues are cut off?"
chapter-29	Are you not aware that if you kill yourself, I''ll also kill myself?
chapter-29	But how is it that the moment I allude to the topic of gold and jade, you at once lose all patience?
chapter-29	But how is it, I do n''t see anything of Jung Erh?"
chapter-29	But should your complaint break out afresh how will Mr. Pao bear the blow?"
chapter-29	But to- morrow is the fifth day of the moon, a great festival, and will you two still continue like this, as if you were very enemies?
chapter-29	But were the heavens to annihilate me and the earth to extinguish me, what benefit would you derive?"
chapter-29	But were you to have called him in there, would n''t it have saved a lot of trouble?"
chapter-29	But what about the third play?"
chapter-29	But what need is there for any such presents?
chapter-29	Do n''t you yet come along with me inside?"
chapter-29	Do you understand me, yes or no?
chapter-29	Had you broken it, how would her heart and face have been able to bear the mortification?"
chapter-29	Has he been all right all the time?
chapter-29	Have all the ladies and young ladies continued well?
chapter-29	I told them to invite Mr. Pao to come for a stroll; but how was it they said that he was n''t at home?"
chapter-29	If you want to distribute anything among the poor, why do n''t you dole out cash to them?"
chapter-29	Now he went on to abuse the young servants, crying:"Are your hands made fast, that you ca n''t lead the horse round?"
chapter-29	They now start a quarrel, and do n''t you exert yourselves in the least to restrain them?"
chapter-29	Were you to frighten him, he will really be much to be pitied; and wo n''t his father and mother be exceedingly cut up?"
chapter-29	Will this suit you or not?"
chapter-29	she demurred,"and why, pray, do you batter that dumb thing about?
chapter-29	she shouted,"where are you running to?"
chapter-29	smiled old lady Chia,"how are you; quite well?"
chapter-07	Better keep them and give them to your daughter Pao Ch''ai to wear,observed madame Wang,"and have done with it; why think of all the others?"
chapter-07	Did my lady call?
chapter-07	Has this medicine any name or other of its own?
chapter-07	Have these flowers,she inquired eagerly,"been sent to me alone, or have all the other girls got some too?"
chapter-07	Have you been well of late, mother?
chapter-07	Have you received,further asked Mrs. Chou,"the monthly allowance for incense offering due on the fifteenth or not?"
chapter-07	How can I not know all about this Chiao Ta?
chapter-07	How is it she''s not even been over for these few days?
chapter-07	How is my young lady?
chapter-07	Is that it?
chapter-07	She''s in that room, is n''t she?
chapter-07	Sister Chou, what took you over on the other side?
chapter-07	What are you running over here for at this time?
chapter-07	What do you feel like after all when this complaint manifests itself?
chapter-07	What flowers?
chapter-07	What have you people invited me to come here for?
chapter-07	What time did you come over?
chapter-07	What was cousin Pao Ch''ai doing at home?
chapter-07	What''s the use,they said,"of asking him?
chapter-07	Where is that bald- pated and crotchety superior of yours gone?
chapter-07	Who''s now in charge of the issue of the monthly allowances to the various temples?
chapter-07	Whom have you told off to escort him?
chapter-07	You do n''t mean to tell me,observed Mrs. Yu,"that you do n''t know this Chiao Ta?
chapter-07	And as she spoke,"Is our carriage ready?"
chapter-07	But fancy allowing servants in this household to go on in this way; why, what will be the end of it?"
chapter-07	Chou Jui''s wife then asked Hsiang Ling,"At what age did you enter this family?
chapter-07	Has Mr. Pao- yü perhaps given you offence?"
chapter-07	I think he''s in the library; but why not go and see for yourself, uncle Pao?"
chapter-07	Mrs. Chou promptly asked the nurse in a low tone of voice:"Is the young lady asleep at this early hour?
chapter-07	Mrs. Chou was bent upon making some further remark, when madame Wang was suddenly heard to enquire,"Who is in here?"
chapter-07	P''ing Erh forthwith entered the room on this side, and upon perceiving Chou Jui''s wife:"What have you come here again for, my old lady?"
chapter-07	Reader, do you wish to know what follows?
chapter-07	There is n''t, I hope, any objection to my seeing him?"
chapter-07	Were it not for Chiao Ta, and him alone, where would your office, honours, riches and dignity be?
chapter-07	What errand have n''t you delivered as yet, ma; and what is it you''re holding?"
chapter-07	What would one then do?"
chapter-07	What''s it?"
chapter-07	What''s there so pressing that has prevented you from returning home?
chapter-07	When Pao- yü heard this news,"Who''ll go,"he speedily ascertained of the waiting- maids,"and inquire after her?
chapter-07	When the seniors of the family still lived, they all looked upon him with exceptional regard; but who at present ventures to interfere with him?
chapter-07	Why not pack him off to some distant farm, and have done with him?"
chapter-07	Why, if you keep him in your house, wo n''t he be a source of mischief?
chapter-07	You''ll find sitting here,"she continued,"very dull, and why not go out and have a stroll?"
chapter-07	and also inquired,"In what year of your teens are you?
chapter-07	and of what place are you a native?"
chapter-07	and where are your father and mother at present?"
chapter-07	asked Chou Jui''s wife;"but after all, what rooted kind of complaint are you subject to, miss?
chapter-07	what''s it?"
chapter-07	why come again and ask me?"
chapter-07	why was I ever born in this household of a marquis and in the mansion of a duke?
chapter-54	''What are you up to?'' chapter-54 But do you also try to imitate our old lady by pulling our leg?"
chapter-54	But since you behave like this, would n''t it be well if you also went and poured wine all round?
chapter-54	Have they all, forsooth, gone to sleep?
chapter-54	Have you of late added any new stories to your stock?
chapter-54	How could your venerable ladyship,they said,"recollect so many matters?"
chapter-54	How is it,his grandmother Chia felt obliged so ask,"that I do n''t see anything of Hsi Jen?
chapter-54	In this propitious first moon,old lady Chia smiled,"wo n''t your teacher let you come out for a stroll?
chapter-54	Is it likely that the men themselves did n''t hear the report?
chapter-54	Nothing she likes so much as letting off huge crackers,Pao- ch''ai smilingly interposed,"and could she fear this sort of thing?"
chapter-54	Now is n''t this a duplicate of our girl Feng''s name?
chapter-54	Some time ago,lady Feng laughed,"Hsi Jen came in person and told you, worthy ancestor, and how is it you''ve forgotten it?"
chapter-54	Venerable lady,a singing- girl put in,"you do n''t like the stories we tell; but may we thrum a song for you?"
chapter-54	Venerable senior,she said,"would n''t it be prudent for you to move on to the stove couch in the winter apartments?
chapter-54	Well, in that case,dowager lady Chia smilingly rejoined,"why should n''t the whole company adjourn inside?
chapter-54	What about the young ladies?
chapter-54	What comes afterwards?
chapter-54	What has n''t our worthy senior heard?
chapter-54	What stories would you like to hear?
chapter-54	What watch of the night is it?
chapter-54	What''s its title?
chapter-54	What''s the use of your now following their lead again and falling on your knees?
chapter-54	Where are you off to?
chapter-54	Who of us can pit herself against you, dear ancestor, who have ever ready at hand whatever you want to say? chapter-54 Who''s there?"
chapter-54	Why should you be in such fear and trembling?
chapter-54	With all your years, do n''t you yet know what''s what? chapter-54 Would she likely wait until now?"
chapter-54	''Is that the case?''
chapter-54	Are you perchance afraid lest your feet might grow bigger by walking?"
chapter-54	Better then that we should retrace our steps, and let them quietly have a chat together, eh?
chapter-54	But as both these girls are now in mourning, why not allow them to live together?
chapter-54	But can it be that you will, on the contrary, poke fun at me?"
chapter-54	But how could such as they ever know the principle which prevails in official and literary families?
chapter-54	But remembering that her first story had been left unfinished, they inquired of her:"What was, after all, the issue of the first story?
chapter-54	But to whom can we go and confide our grievance?''
chapter-54	But when did her mother die?
chapter-54	But would one presume to ask for what should n''t be asked for?"
chapter-54	Eh, what do you say?"
chapter-54	For as soon as any theatricals are set on foot in here, who does n''t surreptitiously sneak out from the garden to have a look?
chapter-54	How could one ever use this icy- cold water?"
chapter-54	How is it I know nothing about it?"
chapter-54	I see people busy putting things away, and fussing about still, so how can I make out what will be the end of it all?"
chapter-54	Is it likely that, if she were still in my pay, she would n''t at present be here?
chapter-54	Is n''t it so, eh?"
chapter-54	Is she too now putting on high and mighty airs that she only sends these juvenile girls here?"
chapter-54	It was really scalding; is it cold now?"
chapter-54	Now is it likely that the imperial laws would look upon him as a man of parts, and that they would n''t bring against him some charge of robbery?
chapter-54	Now, does n''t this amount to bragging and boasting?"
chapter-54	She behaves as neither devil nor thief would: so in what respect does she resemble a nice pretty girl?
chapter-54	So wo n''t it be preferable that the person, in whose hands the twig remains, when the drum stops, should crack some joke or other?"
chapter-54	What are you singing now?
chapter-54	What can, think for yourselves, all the other people be up to?
chapter-54	What''s the use of standing on such ceremonies?"
chapter-54	Who is n''t aware that it''s for our old mistress?
chapter-54	With the little use we are in this line, wo n''t there be an absolute lack of fun in our contributions?
chapter-54	Would n''t it be warmer for us all?"
chapter-46	Could I,smiled Pao- yü,"have taken my mother''s part, and run down my senior uncle and aunt?
chapter-46	Decided what?
chapter-46	Have you, miss, run over here? chapter-46 How does this matter concern Madame Wang, my mother?"
chapter-46	How is it,added Madame Hsing,"that you, who''ve ever been so quick have now too begun to be so infirm of purpose?
chapter-46	Is it likely, pray,she said,"that you still hesitate?
chapter-46	Is it perchance what Madame Hsing has told you?
chapter-46	Is it you of all people, who are up to those things? chapter-46 Is this any fault of mine?"
chapter-46	Madame,she felt impelled to ask,"what do you come for at this impossible hour?"
chapter-46	Should n''t you have given her a slap on the mouth?
chapter-46	Since you, miss, know what it''s all about,her sister- in- law added smilingly,"what else remains for me to do?
chapter-46	There are endless wealthy families with three and four concubines,she said,"and is it in ours that such a thing wo n''t do?
chapter-46	What are you up to?
chapter-46	What can it be that it''s so pressing?
chapter-46	What do you want to tell me?
chapter-46	What does it matter whether I be born here or not?
chapter-46	What has she got to do,she purposely went on to ask,"that she will trouble her day after day?"
chapter-46	What matters a moment''s shame,Yüan Yang rejoined,"when things have reached this juncture?
chapter-46	What plan is it?
chapter-46	What were you hiding there for?
chapter-46	What''s that again to do with Hsi Jen? chapter-46 What''s there in this to be ashamed?"
chapter-46	Where did n''t I look for you?
chapter-46	Where do you hail from?
chapter-46	Who else was present?
chapter-46	And as for a whole life time I shall not join myself to a man, what joy will not then be mine, for having managed to preserve my purity?"
chapter-46	And of all the servants at home, will any you may wish to employ not deign to move to execute your orders?
chapter-46	And while he waits for three years to expire, can one say what may not happen?
chapter-46	But do you perchance see your way to bring this concern about?"
chapter-46	But how long can I have lived, and what discrimination can I boast of?
chapter-46	But is there any reason why I should commission you to go?
chapter-46	Do n''t you yet bundle yourself off from my presence?"
chapter-46	Do you still make such suggestions?
chapter-46	Ever since our youth up, how many chats have the ten or dozen of us not had, and what have we not been up to together?
chapter-46	Have you heard of any ladies or gentlemen who''d like to raise us to the rank of secondary wives?
chapter-46	How came they to know anything about it?"
chapter-46	How can one give faith to words spoken behind one''s back?
chapter-46	How ever can you therefore bear people a grudge, if they ask for her hand?
chapter-46	How ever could she reconcile herself to part from her?
chapter-46	If my mother did not bear the whole blame, upon whom could she throw it?
chapter-46	Is it likely, pray, that you would tender apologies to me on behalf of our venerable ancestor?"
chapter-46	So if I do n''t listen to any proposals, is it likely, may I ask, that they''ll kill my father and mother?"
chapter-46	They found no one else than Hsi Jen, who presented herself before them, with a smiling countenance, and asked:"What''s up?
chapter-46	What is there that does n''t fall in with your wishes?
chapter-46	When your ladyship hears these nice doings of his, do n''t you feel enamoured with that fine gentleman of ours?
chapter-46	Who is there, even among the various elderly waiting- maids, who look after the house, who would n''t be only too willing to step into these shoes?
chapter-46	Wo n''t it be better there?"
chapter-46	Would I have ever waited up to the present?"
chapter-46	Would n''t it be as well then that you should now come in my carriage, for it will be better for you and me to get there together?"
chapter-28	And is there, pray, any likelihood that cousin Secunda would also follow in my lead and tell lies?
chapter-28	Do you want to hear it or not?
chapter-28	Every one,she cogitated,"laughs at me for labouring under a foolish mania, but is there likely another fool besides myself?"
chapter-28	Have you had anything nice to eat with your mother?
chapter-28	Have you heard what was said or not?
chapter-28	How is it that Miss Lin''s are not the same as mine, but that Miss Pao''s instead are like my own? chapter-28 If I pass two remarks will you listen to me; yes or no?"
chapter-28	If she is n''t, what is she? chapter-28 Is it for me to speak now?"
chapter-28	Miss,inquired Madame Wang at the sight of Tai- yü,"have you taken any of Dr. Pao''s medicines?
chapter-28	Now is not Hsi Jen a precious thing?
chapter-28	Sad for what?
chapter-28	Since this is what we''ve come to now,he sighed,"what was the use of what existed between us in days gone by?"
chapter-28	The master of the rules,Hsüeh P''an remarked,"approves it in every way, so what are you people fussing about?"
chapter-28	Was n''t I inside the room?
chapter-28	Well, in that case,she said,"why did you not let a servant- girl open the door when I came over?"
chapter-28	Well,resumed Lin Tai- yü,"why did you yesterday appeal to me when that hussey Pao- ch''ai would not help you by telling a story?
chapter-28	What I are you still prevaricating?
chapter-28	What amuses you so?
chapter-28	What are you in such a funk for?
chapter-28	What does it matter who taught me how to cut?
chapter-28	What is she grieved about?
chapter-28	What kind of song is this?
chapter-28	What prompts you to say this?
chapter-28	What''s this?
chapter-28	Where''s cousin Lin?
chapter-28	Who has taught her how to cut out these things?
chapter-28	Why should he be fined?
chapter-28	Why worry yourself about it?
chapter-28	You ca n''t resist,Pao- ch''ai said,"a single puff of wind; and why do you stand there and expose yourself to the very teeth of it?"
chapter-28	You''re fortunate enough to be able to drink wine daily, and ca n''t you, forsooth, even come up to me? chapter-28 After listening to her enumeration,What''s the reason of this?"
chapter-28	Are you, pray, going now to disregard this rule and to drink, instead, ten large cups; besides going down to pour the wine?"
chapter-28	But to- day is our first meeting, and what shall I do?"
chapter-28	But when Pao- ch''ai and all the rest have ultimately reached that stage when no trace will be visible of them, where shall I myself be then?
chapter-28	But, reader, do you want to hear the sequel?
chapter-28	Can it be that no consideration finds a place in your heart?"
chapter-28	Do you feel any better?"
chapter-28	Eh, will you?"
chapter-28	If a girl marries a man, who chooses to forget all virtue, how can she not feel sore at heart?"
chapter-28	May not the message have been wrongly delivered?"
chapter-28	My precious pet, my own dear little darling, If I do n''t choose to open how can you steal in?"
chapter-28	Pao- yü hurriedly walked up to her,"I told you,"he smiled,"to select those you liked from my things; how is it you did n''t choose any?"
chapter-28	Pao- yü shouted,"it is neither a bill; nor is it a list of presents, and in what style shall I write it?"
chapter-28	So how can he not be fined?"
chapter-28	Turning her face towards him,"what about days gone by,"she remarked,"and what about now?"
chapter-28	ejaculated Pao- yü,"when you got here in days gone by, was n''t I your playmate in all your romps and in all your fun?
chapter-28	laughingly exclaimed Hsüeh P''an,"your worthy Mr. Hsüeh still lives, and why do you give way to fears?"
chapter-28	shouted Hsüeh P''an,"is it likely that what I say is not correct?
chapter-34	Are you better?
chapter-34	Did n''t you notice that gosling- yellow slip? chapter-34 Do you still refer to this?"
chapter-34	Every one knows full well that it was you, who said those things, and do you yet prevaricate?
chapter-34	Has he had anything to eat?
chapter-34	How many small bottles the like of this can there be?
chapter-34	I hear,he consequently asked,"that cousin Pao- yü has got into trouble; why is it?"
chapter-34	I only wish to ask how his pains and aches are getting on now?
chapter-34	Is he feeling any better now?
chapter-34	Mother,she observed,"have you heard what brother says, what is it all about?"
chapter-34	Must those people amuse themselves again by poking fun at me?
chapter-34	Was n''t it about this that he was beaten? chapter-34 Were every one,"insinuated Hsüeh P''an,"to assert that I had committed murder, would you believe even that?"
chapter-34	What are you up to,he vociferated,"that you wo n''t let me go where I please, and that you deliberately go on calumniating me?
chapter-34	What are you up to?
chapter-34	What can he have sent me handkerchiefs for?
chapter-34	What do you once more come here for?
chapter-34	What shall I go empty- handed for?
chapter-34	What''s there to thank me for?
chapter-34	When did I stir up any trouble?
chapter-34	Who fusses?
chapter-34	Who gave him these handkerchiefs?
chapter-34	Who is there?
chapter-34	Whom would you go and beat? chapter-34 Why did n''t you come earlier and tell me?
chapter-34	Why should I get angry?
chapter-34	And can it be that I do n''t, after all, now understand how to manage a son?
chapter-34	As luck would have it, she encountered Tai- yü standing alone under the shade of the trees, who inquired of her:"Where she was off to?"
chapter-34	But have you left him again?
chapter-34	But should any harm befall him, through these floggings, upon whom will I depend by and bye?"
chapter-34	But what''s the use of your asking me about them?
chapter-34	But wo n''t it be better for me to go into the garden, and take Pao- yü and give him a bit of my mind and kill him?
chapter-34	But, is Pao- yü forsooth the lord of the heavens that because he has had a thrashing from his father, the whole household should be fussing for days?
chapter-34	Have you perchance heard what it was that he said?
chapter-34	In former days, when your elder master, Chu, was alive, how did I succeed in keeping him in order?
chapter-34	Is it likely that I do n''t know how to look after a son?
chapter-34	It''s all you who are at the bottom of this trouble; and do you still have the face to come and ply me with questions?"
chapter-34	Luckily, no harm was done to any tendon or bone; for had you been crippled by the thrashing you got, what could we do?"
chapter-34	Mrs. Hsüeh continued,"and is it likely that she would accuse you falsely, pray?"
chapter-34	Now is it likely, forsooth, that this too was something that I started?"
chapter-34	Otherwise, when I get there, what excuse will I be able to find?"
chapter-34	Speedily taking Hsi Jen''s hand in hers:"Is it likely,"she inquired,"that Pao- yü has been up to any mischief with any one?"
chapter-34	The silk kerchiefs, which he so kindly troubled to give me, How ever could they not with anguish and distress fill me?
chapter-34	These things are all commonplace trifles; but wo n''t Mr. Secundus''name and reputation be subsequently done for for life?
chapter-34	Who''s there to wait on him?"
chapter-34	Yet, did I not also think of them?
chapter-34	and, taking a seat next to Pao- yü, she asked him, while she did all she could to hide her tears:"How was it that he beat you to such extremes?"
chapter-34	come first and assail me?"
chapter-45	Above, you fight shy of the rain,Tai- yü remarked,"but are n''t these shoes and socks below afraid of rain?
chapter-45	Are they lighting lanterns with this weather?
chapter-45	Are you better to- day?
chapter-45	Has n''t she got the gift of the gab? chapter-45 Have you had any medicines?
chapter-45	How can I interfere with them?
chapter-45	How can you compare yourself with me?
chapter-45	I''m not up to doing anything wet or dry,( play on word''shih,''verses),lady Feng laughed,"and would you have me, pray, come and gorge?"
chapter-45	Is it so urgent?
chapter-45	Is there anything you fancy to eat?
chapter-45	Was it really about this? chapter-45 Were I not to enter the society, and spend a little money, wo n''t I be treated as a rebel in this garden of Broad Vista?
chapter-45	What about worthy and unworthy?
chapter-45	What do you say?
chapter-45	What is it all about?
chapter-45	What''s of more account,Tai- yü inquired,"harm to a lantern or to a human being?
chapter-45	What''s there in this worth speaking about?
chapter-45	What''s this nonsense you''re talking?
chapter-45	What''s up?
chapter-45	When is he going to his post?
chapter-45	When is it to be?
chapter-45	Where does this fisherman come from?
chapter-45	With what grass are they plaited?
chapter-45	And could he succeed in getting you all right, would n''t it be nice?
chapter-45	And where in autumn does not rain patter against the window- frames?
chapter-45	And will I then still think of tarrying here to eat my head off?
chapter-45	And wo n''t our old lady bear you a grudge, if you do n''t mind these small things?
chapter-45	Anyhow, my resentment is n''t yet spent; and do you come to- day to try and irritate me?
chapter-45	Besides, he does n''t exercise the least restraint over his own self, so is it to be wondered at if all his cousins and nieces do n''t respect him?
chapter-45	But did your father, in his youth resemble you, who have neither fear for God or man?
chapter-45	But here they start a rhyming society, for which not much can be needed, and do n''t you concern yourself about them?
chapter-45	But now that you''ve grown up and reached this age, do you have the faintest notion of what the two words''bond- servant''imply?
chapter-45	Do n''t I know that the money is n''t mine?"
chapter-45	Have you got any attendants, or no?"
chapter-45	How is it that you''ve also suddenly developed this money- grabbing sort of temperament?
chapter-45	How much rice have you had to eat to- day?"
chapter-45	I''ll direct also a servant to take the satin and give it to the gentlemen to size with alum; will this be all right?"
chapter-45	In what family''s courts do not the blasts of autumn winds intrude?
chapter-45	Is it that you wish me to act as president and superintendent?
chapter-45	So what''s the use of not bundling off a disorderly rascal like him, who neither shows any regard for discipline or heaven?"
chapter-45	They''ll very soon be getting married, and, are they likely then to still expect you to make any contributions?
chapter-45	This mood how can I bear, when wind and rain despondency enhance?
chapter-45	This one is as light and handy as it is light- giving; and is really adapted for rainy weather, so would n''t it be well if you carried it yourself?
chapter-45	Was all that liquor, forsooth, poured down a cur''s stomach?
chapter-45	Were you then to contribute each year a hundred or two hundred taels, to help them to have some fun, how many years could this outlay continue?
chapter-45	What did sister- in- law Chou''s son do to incur blame, that he was packed off, and his services dispensed with?"
chapter-45	What time, I wonder, will the wind and rain their howl and patter cease?
chapter-45	Who has n''t seen him do it?
chapter-45	Why, were you go to your home, you''d also have there houses and halls, and who is there who would not hold you in high respect?
chapter-45	Will you, after all, assume the control of this rhyming society or not?"
chapter-45	Wo n''t I explain things clearer than any of the old matrons could?"
chapter-45	Would n''t it be as well therefore to ask some other person of note to come and see you?
chapter-45	You have, besides, plenty of wits about you, so why need you give way to groans, as did Ssu Ma- niu?
chapter-45	You''ve also made such a splendid match; and do you still behave in the way you do?
chapter-45	You''ve ever been the one to love me best, and how is it that you have, on P''ing Erh''s account, ceased to care for me?
chapter-19	As for some nearer place,Ming Yen observed;"to whose house can we go?
chapter-19	Gently,smiled Hsi Jen,"for were you to let them hear, what figure would we cut?"
chapter-19	How is it you utter not a word?
chapter-19	How old is that servant girl?
chapter-19	How would you have one make any reply?
chapter-19	I''ll amend,Pao- yü observed,"and if I say anything of the kind again you can wring my mouth; but what else is there?"
chapter-19	In this covered bowl,she continued to inquire,"is cream, and why not give it to me to eat?"
chapter-19	Is it indeed cousin Pao- yü?
chapter-19	Is it likely that I have, like others, Buddhistic disciples,Tai- yü asked laughing ironically,"or worthies to give me novel kinds of scents?
chapter-19	Under the heavens many are the hills and rivers,Pao- yü rejoined,"and how could you know them all?
chapter-19	Well, in that case,Pao- yü rejoined with a smirking face,"where does this scent come from?"
chapter-19	What are you sighing for?
chapter-19	Where can I go?
chapter-19	Who has been telling old stories?
chapter-19	Whose nail,she went on to inquire,"has scratched this open?"
chapter-19	Why do they want to redeem you?
chapter-19	Why should I cry?
chapter-19	Why should n''t she release me?
chapter-19	You''re again up to your larks,she observed,"but what''s the aim of your visit?
chapter-19	''How could you be more ingenious than they?''
chapter-19	''How many kinds of rice are there?''
chapter-19	After the mutual salutations, Hsi Jen went on to ask of Pao- yü:"Where did you have your repast?
chapter-19	All the members of my family are elsewhere, and there''s only myself in this place, so that how could I end my days here?"
chapter-19	But what''s to be done now?"
chapter-19	Nurse Li however still kept on asking about Pao- yü,"How much rice he now ate at one meal?
chapter-19	Pao- yü at this question, could not for a time unfold its meaning:"What''warm''scent?"
chapter-19	Pao- yü eagerly exclaimed smiling,"if I said that she should come to our house, does it necessarily imply that she should be a servant?
chapter-19	Pao- yü then kept his hands off, and as he laughed,"Tell me,"he asked,"will you again come out with all those words or not?"
chapter-19	Tai- yü urged,"are n''t those pillows outside?
chapter-19	Were your master Mr. Chen to hear of it, would you die or live?"
chapter-19	What else is there besides?"
chapter-19	Who else has come along with him?"
chapter-19	and at what time he went to sleep?"
chapter-19	and did n''t they inquire of you where you were going?"
chapter-19	and what do you make other people think of you?"
chapter-19	and what time did you come back?"
chapter-19	attend to them you may; but must you carry about you a placard( to make it public)?
chapter-19	have you,"she asked,"put on again your new clothes for?
chapter-19	he exclaimed,"at Yang Chou, where your official residence is, has occurred a remarkable affair; have you heard about it?"
chapter-19	nurse Li added;"do you imagine that I''m not aware of the dismissal, the other day, of Hsi Hsüeh, on account of a cup of tea?
chapter-19	specially to come here?
chapter-19	the old rat ascertained,''and how many species of fruits?''
chapter-19	what do you mean by it?
chapter-19	what relics and curiosities there were at Yang Chou?
chapter-19	what sights and antiquities she saw on the journey?
chapter-19	what were the local customs and the habits of the people?"
chapter-52	But who''s there, exclusive of you, able to join the threads?
chapter-52	Could one also go and hunt up a Russian tailor?
chapter-52	Have I got the courage to ask him?
chapter-52	How did you manage to get it?
chapter-52	How ever could this do?
chapter-52	I was really speaking quite thoughtlessly; for who ever knows what''s going on in your apartments? chapter-52 In what matter does n''t he lend an ear to any settlement you, young ladies, may propose?
chapter-52	Is it likely that the rest are all dead and gone, and that there only remains but you?
chapter-52	Is it likely,nurse Sung hastily observed,"that a dame like you does n''t know what manners mean?
chapter-52	Miss, have you been all right these last few days?
chapter-52	Miss,she inquired,"what''s up with you?"
chapter-52	Mr. Pao- yü urgently enjoined this to- day,Ch''ing Wen pursued,"so what about Miss Hua( flower) and Miss Ts''ao( grass)?
chapter-52	Now that the nights are longer than they were, you''re sure to cough often and wake several times in the night; eh?
chapter-52	So how could I at present go and fetch it?
chapter-52	This young vixen has seen things of this kind before,She Yüeh ejaculated,"and how is it that she was so shallow- eyed?"
chapter-52	Well,said Pao- yü smiling,"how are you feeling now?"
chapter-52	What could, after all, be the weight of this bracelet?
chapter-52	What''s the matter?
chapter-52	What''s the reason of such behaviour?
chapter-52	What''s the use of such paws?
chapter-52	What''s there to feel resentment about?
chapter-52	What''s to be done?
chapter-52	When is Hsi Jen, after all, coming back?
chapter-52	Where have they gone? chapter-52 Why are you again making fun of me?
chapter-52	You''re just slightly better, and how could you take up any needlework?
chapter-52	Young ladies,she said,"what''s up?
chapter-52	Your remarks are right enough,Ch''ing Wen rejoined,"but I do suspect her, as why did she too start, all of a sudden, imposing upon me?"
chapter-52	Your suggestion is all very good,Ch''ing Wen demurred,"but how could I suppress this resentment?"
chapter-52	After a long time, they heard Hsiang- yün laughingly inquire,"What foreign beauty has come?"
chapter-52	Am I tigress to gobble you up?"
chapter-52	And how could one tell in which particular one, they''re packed up?
chapter-52	And is it for you, sister- in- law, to come and pick out this fault?
chapter-52	But how is it that she says I''m going, and off she forthwith rushes?"
chapter-52	But if you happen to remember the lines,"she pursued, speaking to Pao- ch''in,"why not recite them for our benefit?"
chapter-52	But why banish her from this place?
chapter-52	But with the shame you bring upon yourself before the world, is n''t it right that I should prick you, and make mincemeat of you?"
chapter-52	Even water- coolies and scavenger- coolies indiscriminately address him by his name; and how much more such as we?
chapter-52	For there you are, ancestor mine, a hundred times sharper and cleverer than I; and how is it that you now enjoy both perfect happiness and longevity?
chapter-52	Have they bored into the sand?"
chapter-52	He then went on to inquire of Pao- ch''ai and Pao- ch''in,"Are you two going?"
chapter-52	How comes it you happen to know nothing about it?"
chapter-52	How ever could there be such efficacious medicines?
chapter-52	How is it I never saw them yesterday?"
chapter-52	How is it you''re ready to let others have what cousin Ch''in has given you?
chapter-52	Is it likely we''d also style him''Sir?''
chapter-52	Is it nice or not?"
chapter-52	Is this a place for you to bawl in and to try and explain what is right?
chapter-52	Now is n''t this enough to throw a damper over my good cheer?"
chapter-52	So how could I ever stand the smell of flowers bunging my nose?
chapter-52	So is n''t it better that you should have them carried away?
chapter-52	What day is there that we do n''t utter the two words''Pao- yü''two hundred times?
chapter-52	What''s the use of kicking up all this fuss just now?"
chapter-52	When I recall my springs south of the Han, Can I not feel disconsolate at heart?
chapter-52	Whom have you seen discourse upon the rules of propriety with us?
chapter-52	Will you have them; eh?"
chapter-52	Wo n''t you then be able to give her as many blows as you may like?
chapter-52	old lady Chia inquired,"is it snowing?"
chapter-55	And to whom can I go and tell my grievance?
chapter-55	For what things for Mr. Chia Huan and Mr. Chia Lau was the money expended during the year in the family school?
chapter-55	Have you too,she remarked with a smile,"come here to become something like those guardians posted outside the enclosing walls?"
chapter-55	How can I afford to wait?
chapter-55	How could you know everything?
chapter-55	How could you, miss, be made to go and tell them?
chapter-55	How ever did I forget you?
chapter-55	How is it,inquired lady Feng,"that you''ve been away such an age?"
chapter-55	How many faults will you go on picking out, before you shut up? chapter-55 How would you have me drag you into favour?
chapter-55	I''ve actually addressed you as''you'';P''ing Erh rejoined;"but if you be displeased at it, is n''t this a case of a slap on the mouth?
chapter-55	I''ve already carried out your wishes, and do you now enjoin all these things on me?
chapter-55	Is this any such pressing matter?
chapter-55	Is your lady any better?
chapter-55	Those are dames, who manage important matters and look after the house, and do you send them to ask for eatables and inquire about tea? chapter-55 What are you in such a hurry for?"
chapter-55	What message have you got to deliver?
chapter-55	What shall we do?
chapter-55	What''s the use of another addition, when there''s no valid reason for it?
chapter-55	When were we ever so audacious?
chapter-55	Who has again been twenty months in the womb? chapter-55 Who tells you,"she asked,"to give a lift to any one?
chapter-55	Why do n''t you bring Mrs. Pao''s meal so that she should have it along with us?
chapter-55	Why is it?
chapter-55	''Do you,''I insinuated,''also forget, when you''ve got anything to report to lady Secunda?
chapter-55	2?"
chapter-55	And can we boast of any grand honours to expect to fare any better?"
chapter-55	And how many, many times has n''t she been abused by you?"
chapter-55	And how much was allotted to such as died outside?
chapter-55	And what have they got to do with me?"
chapter-55	But I wonder who of us two will make the other lose face?
chapter-55	But, reader, do you wish to follow up the story?
chapter-55	Chao?"
chapter-55	Do you also behave in this blind sort of way in the presence of your lady Secunda?
chapter-55	Had she even at heart every good intention to lend you a hand, how could she put it into words?"
chapter-55	How can another maternal uncle have cropped up?
chapter-55	If what you say be the case, how is it that every day that Huan- erh goes out, Chao Kuo- chi too stands up, and follows him to school?
chapter-55	Is it likely that all these years that I''ve been here, I have n''t come to know of them?
chapter-55	Is it really for these eight taels that they go to school?
chapter-55	Now if any of them died at home, how much was allowed them?
chapter-55	Or is it forsooth any one who''s gone to the wars, and managed to escape with his life, carrying his master on his back?
chapter-55	Our lady, Madame Wang, may even give a present of a house to any one; what credit is that to me?
chapter-55	So how is it that these extra eight taels have to be disbursed at school for each of these young fellows?
chapter-55	Sobbing, she asked the while:"Who''s my maternal uncle?
chapter-55	What''s the good of worrying and fretting?
chapter-55	What''s the reason that he does n''t?
chapter-55	What''s the use of your bustling about here?"
chapter-55	Whenever you''ve had anything of the kind to lay before your lady Secunda, have you also had to go first and look it up?
chapter-55	Whether much or little be allowed, who''ll ever venture to raise a quarrel about it?"
chapter-55	Who is n''t aware of the fact that I''m born of a concubine?
chapter-55	Who tramples you under foot?
chapter-55	Whom could I drag into favour?
chapter-55	Why does n''t he put on the airs of an uncle?
chapter-55	Why, in what family, do the young ladies give a lift to slave- girls?
chapter-55	Would it require two or three months''time to trace my extraction?
chapter-55	Yet I ca n''t compare myself now even to Hsi Jen, and what credit do I enjoy?
chapter-55	Yet do n''t you yet hurry to go and hunt them up and bring them to me to see?
chapter-55	You can very well give me another one, for is it likely that this phiz of mine has n''t as yet tasted any, pray?"
chapter-55	and have you subsequently to go and hunt up all about it?''
chapter-37	Are there,Hsi Jen then inquired,"any servant- boys on duty outside the back gate?"
chapter-37	Can we write verses,Ying Ch''un retorted,"before we have as yet seen anything of the flowers?"
chapter-37	Did n''t I maintain the same thing?
chapter-37	First rate,exclaimed Li Wan,"and why should we not fix upon some new designations by which to address ourselves?
chapter-37	Has Mr. Pao, I wonder, anything more for me to tell her?
chapter-37	Has he come alone?
chapter-37	Have you all done?
chapter-37	Have you heard?
chapter-37	He was just now,Hsi Jen consequently asked Ch''iu Wen,"over there in Miss Tertia''s rooms, was n''t he?"
chapter-37	I meant to have gone and seen my cousin Tertia; is she better that you come?
chapter-37	I''ve also got one:''the Chrysanthemum shadow,''will that do?
chapter-37	If you dare n''t,Ying Ch''un smiled,"who can presume to do so?"
chapter-37	Is this of any serious import?
chapter-37	It''s evident enough that we can have good verses without them, so what''s the use of any rhymes to shackle us? chapter-37 Or has he any one else with him?"
chapter-37	Princess of Heng Wu,she then inquired of Pao- ch''ai,"have you finished?"
chapter-37	The only thing is what kind of empty words will, I wonder, be best to use? chapter-37 Their names have already been chosen,"T''an Ch''un smilingly demurred;"and do you still keep on addressing them like this?
chapter-37	There are plenty of articles,Hsi Jen remarked,"for sending over things on ordinary occasions; and do you deliberately go and carry this off?"
chapter-37	They''re purely and simply white begonias,Pao- chai answered,"and is there again any need to see them before you put together your verses?
chapter-37	Those were some of the doings of my youth; why rake them up again?
chapter-37	To whom did she give any in these rooms?
chapter-37	To- morrow,Shih Hsiang- yün proposed,"first fine me by making me stand a treat, and letting me be the first to convene a meeting; may I?"
chapter-37	Was it verily you, sister, who got them?
chapter-37	We also do n''t excel in versifying; what''s the use consequently of giving us names, all for no avail?
chapter-37	Well, after this remark,Li Wan proceeded,"what do you say to your being the first to convene a meeting to- morrow?"
chapter-37	Were I to tell you,Ch''ing Wen rejoined,"is it likely that you would return them at this hour to Madame Wang?"
chapter-37	What about mine?
chapter-37	What are you in this hurry for?
chapter-37	What do you say to''ask the Chrysanthemums?''
chapter-37	What names are to be chosen for Miss Secunda and Miss Quarta?
chapter-37	What orders can I have to give them?
chapter-37	What''s it?
chapter-37	Whenever any lucky chance has turned up, you''ve invariably grabbed it; and can it be that you wo n''t let me have a single turn?
chapter-37	Where is the white cornelian tray with twisted threads gone to?
chapter-37	Your styles are very many,T''an Ch''un observed,"and what do you want to choose another for?
chapter-37	''These are flowers,''he mused,''which have newly opened in our garden, so how can I presume to be the first to enjoy them?''
chapter-37	And if she ca n''t come, she will long and crave to be with you all, so is n''t it better that you should n''t be the means of making her unhappy?"
chapter-37	And if we then lay out four or five tables with plates full of refreshments, wo n''t we save trouble and all have a jolly time as well?"
chapter-37	But are they ever left to spend in peace a day or night?
chapter-37	But wo n''t it be more pleasant if no hard- and- fast dates were laid down?"
chapter-37	Continuing,"Do n''t you people,"she laughed,"try and play your pranks with me; for is there anything that I do n''t twig?"
chapter-37	Do you agreeably submit to this verdict?"
chapter-37	How could there be so much to say?
chapter-37	How fit to plant by the corner of walls; how fit for pots?
chapter-37	I was just meaning to ask her to come, for what fun will there be in this poetical society without her?"
chapter-37	Is it likely that each one of us will have to indite verses on all twelve?"
chapter-37	May it not be that the pleasant meetings on the Tung Shan might yield in merit to those, such as ourselves, of the weaker sex?
chapter-37	Or will you perchance ask for some from in here?"
chapter-37	Reader, do you want to know what subsequently took place?
chapter-37	She gave the good ones to others and the refuse to you; and do you still pat on all this side?"
chapter-37	She then quickly continued,"It is, search for chrysanthemums; what''s your idea about it?"
chapter-37	So had we not as well bring it over a moment sooner?"
chapter-37	Some time ago in spring, I thought of this,''but,''I mused,''I am unable to compose verses, so what''s the use of making a mess of things?''
chapter-37	The incense stick is nearly burnt out,"he continued, speaking to Tai- yü,"and what do you keep squatting on that damp ground like that for?"
chapter-37	Well, in that case, wo n''t it be as well for them to have no names?
chapter-37	What do you say?"
chapter-37	What will I care if there''s a meeting every day of the moon?
chapter-37	When much they grieve, how can their jade- like form lack the traces of tears?
chapter-37	Where does the snow, which comes in gloomy weather, issue from?
chapter-37	Who is it who opines that societies with any claim to excellent abilities can only be formed by men?
chapter-37	Would''st thou the god of those white flowers repay?
chapter-37	has n''t the pair of beaded vases, which stood on the very top of that shelf, been fetched as yet?"
chapter-37	they ejaculated unanimously;"for were n''t they given to that foreign spotted pug dog?"
chapter-31	Are you going to stay to- day,dowager lady Chia then asked,"or going back home?"
chapter-31	Are you, after all,cried Hsi Jen, at these words,"bickering with me, or with Master Secundus?
chapter-31	Cousin Yün, have you come?
chapter-31	Dame Chou,Pao- ch''ai smilingly inquired of nurse Chou,"is your young lady always as fond of pranks as ever or not?"
chapter-31	Do you believe what she says?
chapter-31	Do you see that? chapter-31 Have you perchance put that thing away?"
chapter-31	How is it that you would n''t come the other day when some one was despatched to fetch you?
chapter-31	How is it,inquired Ts''ui Lü,"that these lotus flowers have not yet opened?"
chapter-31	If I''m really a stupid girl,repeated Ch''ing Wen, smiling sarcastically,"am I a fit person for you to hold converse with?
chapter-31	If you die,remarked Lin Tai- yü smiling,"what will others do, I wonder?
chapter-31	If you wo n''t go, what''s the good of all this fuss? chapter-31 Is cousin Hsi Jen all right?"
chapter-31	Is cousin Pao- yü not at home?
chapter-31	Is this male, or is this female?
chapter-31	Just see,she laughed,"is it this or not?"
chapter-31	Miss Lin,rejoined Hsi Jen, pushing her off,"what are you fussing about?
chapter-31	On a grand holiday like this,remonstrated Lin Tai- yü smiling,"how is it that you''re snivelling away, and all for nothing?
chapter-31	People say,continued Ts''ui Lü,"that masters are Yang, and that servant- girls are Yin; do n''t I even apprehend this primary principle?"
chapter-31	She''s a stupid girl,she said,"what''s the use of arguing with her?
chapter-31	Since you yourself know that it is n''t meet,replied Pao- yü with a smile,"why then were you sleeping here?"
chapter-31	There''s no rhyme or reason for anything,she replied,"so what can it be?"
chapter-31	Well, never mind about that,added Ts''ui Lü,"But how is it that all things have Yin and Yang, and that we human beings have no Yin and no Yang?"
chapter-31	What are the Yin and Yang? chapter-31 What are you two,"he asked smiling,"doing here in the sun?
chapter-31	What do you call this?
chapter-31	What do you know?
chapter-31	What good thing is it?
chapter-31	What thing?
chapter-31	What''s it that preys on your mind?
chapter-31	What''s the good of coming out with all these things?
chapter-31	What''s there in this that you ca n''t tell me?
chapter-31	What''s this something nice?
chapter-31	When did I ever insist upon going?
chapter-31	When did you too,she promptly smiled,"get a unicorn?"
chapter-31	Where are you off to?
chapter-31	Why do you,Pao- yü chimed in,"give her this abusive epithet?
chapter-31	Why should I go away?
chapter-31	Why, what''s this?
chapter-31	With this intense heat,remonstrated Ch''ing Wen,"why do you pull me and toss me about?
chapter-31	Would n''t it have been better if you''d brought her a couple of those rings with streaked stones of the kind you sent the other day?
chapter-31	You''ve daily worn it about you, and how is it you ask me?
chapter-31	And as neither any human being nor spirit will thus get wind of it, wo n''t it be better?"
chapter-31	And by my bringing them in person to give them to them, does n''t it make things clearer?"
chapter-31	But armed_ cap- à- pie_ as you appear to be, what is your ultimate design?
chapter-31	But as it happened, a servant- boy was again sent the other day, so how could he have mentioned the names of the waiting- girls?
chapter-31	But thereupon he saw the occupant turn herself round, and exclaim:"What do you come again to irritate me for?"
chapter-31	But, ponder now, ought you to have done it; yes or no?"
chapter-31	Had you, when sending that fellow the other day to bring ours, given him these also to bring along with him, would n''t it have saved trouble?
chapter-31	How and why is it that you''ve started styling yourself as''we?''
chapter-31	How is it you do n''t go and find Hsi Jen?"
chapter-31	Hsi Jen smiled,"you may be in real earnest to go and tell her, but are n''t you afraid of putting her to shame?
chapter-31	Hurriedly crossing over,"what are you up to again?"
chapter-31	I presumed that it was something out of the way again; but is it really only these things?
chapter-31	Is it likely that high words have resulted all through that''dumpling''contest?"
chapter-31	Should any people see you, what will they think?
chapter-31	Still, are you so careless?"
chapter-31	The females of beasts are Yin; and the males, Yang; so how is there none?"
chapter-31	What can a few fans cost?"
chapter-31	What is it?"
chapter-31	What would you have me do?"
chapter-31	What''s more, you''ve so far borne with them and overlooked ever, so many other things more grievous than this; and what are you up to to- day?"
chapter-31	What''s the use of it?
chapter-31	When, in a little time, you get married and have a home of your own, will you, forsooth, still go on in this happy- go- lucky careless sort of way?"
chapter-31	Where can it be from?
chapter-31	Will this please you, yes or no?"
chapter-31	Wo n''t this be better?"
chapter-31	what next will you be up to by and bye?
chapter-56	Are you verily Pao- yü?
chapter-56	Besides Yüan Yang, Hsi Jen and P''ing Erh,he pondered,"are there verily such maidens as these?"
chapter-56	Besides our own garden of Broad Vista,he reflected,"is there another such garden?"
chapter-56	Chu- tzu''s work all as much empty talk as any random arguments?
chapter-56	Do you too believe that there''s another Pao- yü?
chapter-56	Does he go to school?
chapter-56	Has the whole family come?
chapter-56	Have n''t you with all your culture read a book like that of Chi- tzu''s?
chapter-56	How can you call this a dream?
chapter-56	How could there ever he such a coincidence?
chapter-56	How do his looks compare with those of your young gentleman?
chapter-56	How is it,Hsiang- yün inquired,"that when the K''uang people saw Confucius, they fancied it was Yang Huo?"
chapter-56	How old is he?
chapter-56	I was this very minute speaking in your praise,Pao- ch''ai observed smiling,"and do you come to chaff me?"
chapter-56	Is she engaged to any one?
chapter-56	Is that young gentleman of yours too with your old mistress?
chapter-56	Is there actually,he cried,"besides the I Hung court another court like it?"
chapter-56	Miss, speak out; who do you consider fit? chapter-56 Pao- yü,"smilingly inquired a maid,"what, are n''t you asleep?
chapter-56	What about the next line?
chapter-56	What kindness?
chapter-56	What makes you say so?
chapter-56	What makes you think so?
chapter-56	What''s the name of your young gentleman?
chapter-56	When did you enter the capital?
chapter-56	Where is Pao- yü gone to?
chapter-56	And if ever we want to retrench a little more from where wo n''t we be able to get money?
chapter-56	And if you do so, will they have any occasion to bully you?
chapter-56	And is a bed now placed before that huge mirror there?
chapter-56	And wo n''t they inwardly look up to you with regard?
chapter-56	And wo n''t this be then a slur upon the code of honour of a household such as yours?
chapter-56	Are there perchance no couple of housekeepers about to push themselves forward and see the doctor in?"
chapter-56	As housekeepers, they exercise, it''s true, authority over you; but why should n''t you yourselves observe a certain amount of decorum?
chapter-56	But can it be that a person gifted with such intelligence as yours can have had no experience in such great matters and legitimate concerns as these?"
chapter-56	But can it ever be possible that he and I should resemble each other in both respects?"
chapter-56	But how is it that your mistress did n''t take this into account?"
chapter-56	But miss can you have forgotten all about it?"
chapter-56	But what is it, in fact, that induces them to behave towards me in this manner?
chapter-56	But you''ll say:''why is he then beaten?''
chapter-56	But you, young brat, from what distant parts of the world do you hail that you''ve recklessly been also dubbed by the same name?
chapter-56	But, as it will look as if I were bent upon pulling her to pieces, how can I take action without consulting her?"
chapter-56	Can this ever do? …."
chapter-56	Hearing this,"I''ve come here,"Pao- yü said with alacrity,"in search of Pao- yü; and are you, indeed, that Pao- yü?"
chapter-56	How ever could our lady not readily accede to an excellent proposal like this?"
chapter-56	How much more therefore when it''s my own aunt, who invokes my aid?
chapter-56	I wonder how they do manage to get such utter rot as they do?"
chapter-56	May it not be true that there lives another human being the very image of myself?"
chapter-56	Otherwise, how is it possible that he should have started shouting his own name?
chapter-56	So would n''t it be well were this charge given to this dame Yeh?
chapter-56	What are you once more sighing for?
chapter-56	What old family friend''s garden is this, I wonder?
chapter-56	What use or purpose is it to allude to such trivial matters?"
chapter-56	Would I recite the following sentence, and heap abuse upon my own self; is it likely I would; eh?"
chapter-56	Would it not be as well if the bed were moved inside to- morrow?
chapter-56	Yet when one puts on the screw with them, they get some articles from somewhere or other, who knows where?
chapter-56	Yet, have n''t you, with all your book- lore, seen anything of the passage in the writing of Chu Fu- tzu:''Throw not thyself away?''"
chapter-56	he eagerly cried,"is there actually a second Pao- yü in here?"
chapter-56	he heard that company of maids observe, with faces beaming with smiles,"how is it you find yourself in here?"
chapter-26	Are you, old lady,replied Hsiao Hung smiling,"taking things in such real earnest that you readily believe them and want to go and ask him in here?"
chapter-26	Could n''t you wait even so much as to conclude what you had to say, but flew off at once? chapter-26 Did n''t I purpose sending a message?"
chapter-26	Do you perchance know what he wants me for?
chapter-26	Had n''t I said that my uncle wanted you?
chapter-26	Have I got all that leisure,retorted nurse Li,"to trudge along with him?
chapter-26	Have you tasted any of our new things?
chapter-26	How could I not have seen correctly?
chapter-26	How could you ever know anything of the secrets of my heart?
chapter-26	I do n''t mind your playing your larks on me; but why,he inquired,"did you mention my father?
chapter-26	Is Miss asleep?
chapter-26	Of what standing are your father and mother?
chapter-26	Sister,he said,"how is it that you are pouring tea for me?
chapter-26	Tell me,she said,"has he deliberately again gone and fallen in love with that Mr. something or other like Yun( cloud), or Yü( rain)?
chapter-26	The one, who was a while back talking to you,continued Chia Yün,"is called Hsiao Hung, is n''t she?"
chapter-26	These are, in point of fact, not very dissimilar from what Keng Huang look like?
chapter-26	They''ve done nothing to you, and why shoot at them with your arrows?
chapter-26	Uncle Secundus,he smiled,"are you at home?
chapter-26	Were they possibly these two characters?
chapter-26	What are you saying?
chapter-26	What are you talking about?
chapter-26	What can I do?
chapter-26	What''s there to fear?
chapter-26	What, did I say anything?
chapter-26	When are you not engaged in practising?
chapter-26	When was that?
chapter-26	Where are you off too?
chapter-26	Where can I go?
chapter-26	Where''s the good tea to be had?
chapter-26	Who''s asleep?
chapter-26	Whose are they, after all?
chapter-26	Why do you deliberately come out with all this talk?
chapter-26	Why is it,smiled Pao- yü, from outside the window,"that your feelings day after day slumber drowsily?"
chapter-26	With whom have you again been boxing,he laughingly inquired,"that you''ve hung up this sign board?"
chapter-26	Would it not do your languid spirits good if you went out for a bit of a stroll?
chapter-26	Would you ever have rushed out with such alacrity?
chapter-26	You are up to mischief again, eh?
chapter-26	You ca n''t so on for ever like this,continued Chia Hui;"you''re besides loth to eat and loth to drink, and what will you be like in the long run?"
chapter-26	And who is it that will tarry here for a whole lifetime?
chapter-26	Are not these four presents, pray, rare delicacies?
chapter-26	But are you quite right once more?"
chapter-26	But why did I ever go and tell you?
chapter-26	But, as luck would have it, a young singing- boy has also come, so what do you say to you and I having a jolly day of it?"
chapter-26	Did you go alone, or did your venerable father accompany you?"
chapter-26	Espying Hsiao Hung lingering in that spot,"Sister Hung,"she cried,"what are you doing in here?"
chapter-26	How is it I ca n''t remember where it is?"
chapter-26	How is it that I''ve forgotten you these two or three months?"
chapter-26	How is it you''re coming this way?"
chapter-26	How much money do you get a month?
chapter-26	I''ll just tell you an honest truth; who else is there like her?
chapter-26	In all how many girls are there in uncle Pao''s rooms?"
chapter-26	Is your venerable father strong and hale?"
chapter-26	Now, do tell me, is this sufficient to anger one or not?"
chapter-26	Or are you afraid, forsooth, lest it should get cold?"
chapter-26	P''an:"Did you see correctly that it read Keng Huang?"
chapter-26	Pao- yü interposed;"will you also behave in this fashion with servant- girls?"
chapter-26	Raising her arms, she adjusted her hair, and smilingly she observed to Pao- yü,"When people are asleep, what do you walk in for?"
chapter-26	She was beginning to put them away, when Chia Hui remarked:"How are you, after all, feeling of late in your mind?
chapter-26	So how is it you say that I''ve again been boxing?
chapter-26	Were I to go and tell my aunt, your mother, to see to the rights and the wrongs of the case, how would you like it?"
chapter-26	Who is steaming bread and waiting for you?
chapter-26	he said,"How many years have you been in uncle Pao''s apartments?
chapter-26	he said,"what are you still kneeling for?"
chapter-26	observed Hsiao Hung;"wo n''t it anyhow be better to die a little earlier?
chapter-26	pleaded nurse Li;"so why should n''t he come in?"
chapter-26	rejoined Hsiao Hung,"are medicines also to be recklessly taken?"
chapter-26	remarked Hsiao Hung,"she''s waiting for you, and are you still squatting here chatting leisurely?
chapter-26	replied Chui Erh smiling;"but why do you ask about her?"
chapter-26	she cried,"do n''t you yet open the gate?"