OR The Pleafing Hiftory. A TRANSLATION FROM THE CHINESE LANGUAGE. To which are added, I. The Argument or Story of a Chinese Play, WITH NOTES. Il n'y a pas de meilleur moyen de s' inftruire de la Chine, VOL. IV. LONDON: Printed for R. and J. DODSLEY in Pall-mall. SHUEY-keu-yé when he came home, faw to his great fatisfaction his daughter grown up to woman's eftate, and highly improved in her beauty and accomplishments. He told her the troubles he had met with had not been able to render him unhappy, neither was he at all elevated by his pro * CHAP. XV. In the Tranflator's manufcript. motion. VOL. IV. B motion. My greatest pleasure, faid he, is to fee you again, and to find you in health." He concluded with telling her, that at court he had met with a young gentleman, whom he had chofen for his fon-in-law, one who was in every refpect answerable to his utmost wishes. It ftruck the young lady that this might poffibly be Tiebchung-u; fhe therefore anfwered, "Sir, you are far advanced in years: it is a great while fince the death of my mother: you have no child but me: it is therefore my duty to ferve you as long as I live and however undeferving I may be, I will never cease to attend you." The Mandarine her father fmiled and faid, "You must not perfift in these resolutions, however commendable they may be. It would be very wrong |