Old Lady Jia extends a compassionate welcome
to the motherless child
G-贾母 D-林黛玉 B-贾宝玉 W-王熙凤 L-林如海 M-老妈子 LW-王夫人
At first D could not be persuaded to part from her father L; but her grandmother G was insistent that she should go, and L added his own reasons…
L: I’m half a century old now, my dear, and I have no intention of taking a cond wife; so there will be no one here to act as a mother to you. It isn’t, either, as if you had sisters who could help to take care of you. You know how often you are poorly. And you are still very young. It would be a great weight off my mind to know that you had your Grandmother Jia and your uncles’ girls to fall back on. I really think you ought to go.
After this Dai-yu could only take a tearful leave of her father.
On the day of her arrival in the capital, Dai-yu stepped ashore to find covered chairs from th
e Rong mansion for her and her women and a cart for the luggage ready waiting on the quay.
满天星花语D: I had often heard my mother say that my Grandmother Jia’s home was not like other people’s hous. When I arrived at their hou I would have to watch every step I took and weigh every word I said, for if I put a foot wrong they would surely laugh me to scorn.
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Some gaily-dresd maids were sitting on the steps of the main building opposite.
M: (to D) You’ve come just at the right time! Lady Jia was only this moment asking about you! (to the public) Miss Lin is here!
As Dai-yu entered the room she saw a silver-haired old lady advancing to meet her, supported on either side by a rvant.
L: this must be my Grandmother Jia.
L would have fallen on her knees and made her kotow, but before she could do so her grandmother had caught her in her arms and pressing her to her bosom.
G: (cries of) My pet! My poor lamb! (水果甜汤burst into loud sobs)
Dai-yu felt herlf crying as though she could never stop. It was some time before tho prent succeeded in calming them both down and Dai-yu was at last able to make her kotow. Grandmother Jia now introduced tho prent.
G: This is your elder uncle’s wife, Aunt Xing. This is your Uncle Zheng’s wife, Aunt Wang. This is Li Wan, the wife of your Cousin Zhu, who died.
D kowtowed to each of them in turn.
G: Your mother was the one I loved the best, and now she’s been the first to go, and without my even being able to e her again before the end. I can’t help being upt! (hold fast to D’s hand, she once more burst into tears)
D: Grannie~
G: You 青春散文emed scarcely strong enough, and dear, you must be suffering from some deficiency. What medicine do you 成绩的近义词take for it? Why it is still not better?
D: I have always been like this, I have been taking medicine ever since I could eat and been looked at by ever so many well-known doctors, but it has never done me any good. I’m now taking Ginng Tonic Pills.
G: Well, that’s handy, I take the Pills mylf. We can easily tell them to make up a few more each time…
Someone could be heard talking and laughing in a very loud voice in the inner courtyard behind them.
W: Oh dear! I’m late, I’ve misd the arrival of our guest.
D: Everyone el around here ems to go about with bated breath. Who can this new arrival be who is 50 brash and unmannerly?
W entered from the room behind the one they were sitting in.
G: You don’t know her. She’s a holy terror this one. What we ud to call in Nanking a “peppercorn”. You just call her “Peppercorn Feng”. She’ll know who you mean!
D accordingly smiled and curtyed. W took D by the hand and for a few moments scrutinized her carefully from top to toe before conducting her back to her at beside Grandmother Jia.
W: She’s a beauty, Grannie dear! If I hadn’t t eyes on her today, I shouldn’t have believed that such a beautiful creature could exist! And everything about her so distingue!
D: Eh……
小学生格言大全W: She doesn’t take after your side of the family, Grannie. She’s more like a Jia. I don’t blame you for having gone on so about her during the past few days - but poor little thing! What a cruel fate to have lost Auntie like that (dabbed at eyes with a handkerchief.)
G: I’ve only just recovered. Don’t you go trying to start me off again! Besides, your little cousin is not very strong, and we’ve only just managed to get her cheered up. So let’s have no more of this!
W: Yes, of cour. It was just that eing my little cousin here put everything el out of
my mind. It made me want to laugh and cry all at the same time. I’m afraid I quite forgot about you, Grannie dear. I derve to be spanked, don’t I?
G: Surely~
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W:可以英文 (grabbed D by the hand.) You mustn’t feel home sick here. If there’s anything you want to eat or anything you want to play with, just come and tell me.
