| You were telling me you were afraid of getting... 330 |
[Jan. 28th, 2010|02:16 am] |
You were telling me you were afraid of getting fat, but the way you like to sleep on the ship, I think you must have gained several pounds already The child was yelling for the candy, and as soon as he got it into his mouth, he chewed it upHis mother told him to thank Miss Pao, but he paid no attention, so the mother had to humor Miss Pao herselfMiss Su had already noticed that the candy cost nothingIt was just a sugar cube served aboard the ship with coffee at breakfastShe despised Miss Pao for the way she put onNot wanting to speak to Miss Pao anymore, she opened her book again, but from the corner of her eye she caught a glimpse of Miss Pao pulling two deck chairs over to an empty spot some distance away and arranging them side by sideShe secretly reviled Miss Pao for being so shameless, but at the same time hated herself for having spied on Miss Pao
At that point Fang Hung-chien came on deckSun and Miss Su, he stopped to say a few words"How's the little fellow?" MrsSun replied curtly, not paying much attention to him
Miss Su said with a smile, "You'd better hurryAren't
you afraid some one will get impatient?"
Fang Hung-chien blushed and gave a silly smile, then
walked away from Miss SuShe knew perfectly well she
couldn't keep him back, but when he left, she felt a
sense of lossNot a word of the book sank inShe
could hear Miss Pao's sweet voice and laughter and
couldn't resist looking at her againFang was smoking
a cigaretteAs Miss Pao held out her hand toward him,
he pulled out his cigarette case and offered her one
Miss Pao held it in her mouth, and as he made a
gesture with his fingers on the lighter to light it
for her, she suddenly tilted her mouth upward, and
touching her cigarette with the one he was smoking,
breathed inWith the cigarette lit, Miss Pao
triumphantly blew out a puff of smokeMiss Su was so
furious that chills ran through her bodyThose two
have no sense of shame whatsoever, she thoughtright
in full view of everyone using cigarettes to kiss
Unable to bear the sight any longer, she stood up and
said she was going belowActually she knew there was
no place to go below the deckPeople were playing
cards in the dining room, and the sleeping cabins were
too stuffySun was also thinking of going down
to her husband to see how much money he had lost that
day, but she was afraid if he had lost badly he would
take it out on her as soon as she asked him, and there
would be a long quarrel when he returned to the cabin
Thus, she didn't dare get up rashly and only asked her
son if he wanted to go down and pee
Miss Su's condemnation of Fang Hung-chien for being
shameless was ac tually unjustAt that moment he was
so embarrassed that it seemed to him that everybody on
deck was watching himInwardly he blamed Miss Pao for
being too overt in her behavior and wished he could
have said something to her about itAlthough he was
now twenty-seven and had been engaged be fore, he had
had no training in loveHis father had passed the
second-degree examination under Manchu rule6 and was a
prominent squire ~n his native dis trict south of the
Yangtze Nine out of ten of the emigrants from this
district living in big cities were now either
blacksmiths, bean-curd makers, or sedan- chair
carriersThe most famous indigenous crafts were clay
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