Chapter 36
While Hsi Jen is busy embroidering mandarin ducks, Pao-y receives, in the Chiang Yn Pavilion, an omen from a dream. Pao-y apprehends that there is a destiny in affections, when his feelings are aroused to a sense of the situation in the Pear Fragrance court. Ever since dowager lady Chia's return from Madame Wang's quarters, for we will now take up the string of our narrative, she naturally felt happier in her mind as she saw that Pao-y improved from day to day; but nervous lest Chia Cheng should again in the future send for him, she lost no time in bidding a servant summon a head-page, a constant attendant upon Chia Cheng, to come to her, and in impressing upon him various orders. "Should," she enjoined him, "anything turn up henceforward connected with meeting guests, entertaining vi
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