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An Eastern Novel.
that I know not what is become of my husband ! Liu-tchm , my brother-in-law and friend , whom I mig ht depend upon is on a journey ; my parents and relations live at a great distance ; ig-this affair is hastened how can I g ive them notice ? I can hope for no assistance from my neig hbours , for Liu-pao is become formidable among them , and they know he is capable of the blackest villany if ruin
¦ wretch that I am ! I cannot escape from his snares ; my is not perfected to-nig ht it will to-morrow , or in a very short time ; the only thing I can do is to put an end to this painful life ; to die once is much better than to suffer a thousand deaths , and what is my life at present but one continual death ? She then came to a resolutionbut deferred executing it till the
, evening : as soon as day had left our hemisphere , and darkness had succeeded in it ' s room , she retired into her chamber , and shutting herself up took a cord , andfasten'd one endof it to a beam , and at the other made a running noose ; she got upon a stool , modestly adjusted her garments about her feet , and then cried out , supreme Tien avenge my cause : after this she threw down her
head-dress , and putting her head and neck into the running noose , she kicked away the stool with her foot , and was left suspended in tiie air . Here was an end , as one would imagine , of this unfortunate lady , but it somehow happened that the cord , though made of hemp and seemingly very strong , immediately broke , and she fell to the ground half dead
. Yang ran towards the room as soon as she heard the noise which was occasioh'd by her violent fall , and found the door barricadoed ; she thought it was the effect of a troubled mind , and therefore took up a bar and wrench'd open the door : as the night was _ extremely dark in entering the room her feet were entangled in Ouang ' s garmentwhich threw her downthis fall forced her head-dress to
, ; some distance , and the fright she was in made her faint away for a few moments : when she had recover'd her senses she rose up and went to seek for a lamp , and returning to the room found Ouang extended upon the earth without motion , and her breath almost gone , for the cord bound her so very straight that she foam'd at the mouth , upon which she immediately loosen'd the running
noose . While she was proceeding to do other services she heard a knocking at the door ; she made no doubt but it was the merchant of Kiang-si that came to fetch his purchased spouse ; she ran hastily to receive them , and introduce them into her chamber that they might be witnesses of what had happened ; through haste , and willingness not to without a head-dressshe took up that
appear , which she found at her feet , which was the mourning head-dress of Ouang . It was in reality the merchant of Kiaug-si that came to take awav the ladv that had been promised him ; he had a wedding-chair adorned with streamers of silk , festooas , flowers , and several fine
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
An Eastern Novel.
that I know not what is become of my husband ! Liu-tchm , my brother-in-law and friend , whom I mig ht depend upon is on a journey ; my parents and relations live at a great distance ; ig-this affair is hastened how can I g ive them notice ? I can hope for no assistance from my neig hbours , for Liu-pao is become formidable among them , and they know he is capable of the blackest villany if ruin
¦ wretch that I am ! I cannot escape from his snares ; my is not perfected to-nig ht it will to-morrow , or in a very short time ; the only thing I can do is to put an end to this painful life ; to die once is much better than to suffer a thousand deaths , and what is my life at present but one continual death ? She then came to a resolutionbut deferred executing it till the
, evening : as soon as day had left our hemisphere , and darkness had succeeded in it ' s room , she retired into her chamber , and shutting herself up took a cord , andfasten'd one endof it to a beam , and at the other made a running noose ; she got upon a stool , modestly adjusted her garments about her feet , and then cried out , supreme Tien avenge my cause : after this she threw down her
head-dress , and putting her head and neck into the running noose , she kicked away the stool with her foot , and was left suspended in tiie air . Here was an end , as one would imagine , of this unfortunate lady , but it somehow happened that the cord , though made of hemp and seemingly very strong , immediately broke , and she fell to the ground half dead
. Yang ran towards the room as soon as she heard the noise which was occasioh'd by her violent fall , and found the door barricadoed ; she thought it was the effect of a troubled mind , and therefore took up a bar and wrench'd open the door : as the night was _ extremely dark in entering the room her feet were entangled in Ouang ' s garmentwhich threw her downthis fall forced her head-dress to
, ; some distance , and the fright she was in made her faint away for a few moments : when she had recover'd her senses she rose up and went to seek for a lamp , and returning to the room found Ouang extended upon the earth without motion , and her breath almost gone , for the cord bound her so very straight that she foam'd at the mouth , upon which she immediately loosen'd the running
noose . While she was proceeding to do other services she heard a knocking at the door ; she made no doubt but it was the merchant of Kiang-si that came to fetch his purchased spouse ; she ran hastily to receive them , and introduce them into her chamber that they might be witnesses of what had happened ; through haste , and willingness not to without a head-dressshe took up that
appear , which she found at her feet , which was the mourning head-dress of Ouang . It was in reality the merchant of Kiaug-si that came to take awav the ladv that had been promised him ; he had a wedding-chair adorned with streamers of silk , festooas , flowers , and several fine