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Pan Demos, v. 1, issue 2, March 1949
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item of a Chinese marriage ceremony amounting, in fact, to calling God to witness the contract), and rose up as man and wife, after which the bride went away bidding Mr. Chu keep quiet until she came back. This went on for a couple of days, when the young lady's companions began to small a rate and discovered Mr. Chu's hiding-place. Thereupon they all laughed and said, "My dear, you are now a married woman and should leave off that maidenly coiffure." So they gave her the proper hair-pins and head ornaments and bad her go bind her hair at which she blushed very mush but said nothing. Then one of them cried out, "My sisters let us be off. Two's company, more's none." At this they all giggled again and went away. Mr. Chu found his wife very much improved by the alteration in the style of her hair. The high top knot and the coronet of pendants were very becoming to her. But suddenly they heard a sound like the clanking of chains and the noise of angry discussion. The bridge jumped up in a fright, and she and Mr. Chu peeped out. They saw a man clad in golden armour, with a face as black as jet, carrying in his hand chains and whips, and surrounded by all the girls. He asked, "Are you all here?" "All," they replied. "If," said he, "any mortal is here concealed amongst you, denounce him at once, and lay not up sorrow for yourselves." Here they all answered as before that there was no one. The man then made a movement as if he would search the place, upon which the bride was dreadfully alarmed, and her face turned the colour of ashes. In her terror she said to Mr. Chu, "Hide yourself under the bed," and opening a small lattice in the wall, disappeared herself. Mr. Chu in his concealment hardly dared to draw his breath; and in a little while he heard the boots tramp into the room and out again, the sound of the voices getting gradually fainter and fainter in the distance. This reassured him, but he still heard the voices of people going backwards and forwards outside, and having 17
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item of a Chinese marriage ceremony amounting, in fact, to calling God to witness the contract), and rose up as man and wife, after which the bride went away bidding Mr. Chu keep quiet until she came back. This went on for a couple of days, when the young lady's companions began to small a rate and discovered Mr. Chu's hiding-place. Thereupon they all laughed and said, "My dear, you are now a married woman and should leave off that maidenly coiffure." So they gave her the proper hair-pins and head ornaments and bad her go bind her hair at which she blushed very mush but said nothing. Then one of them cried out, "My sisters let us be off. Two's company, more's none." At this they all giggled again and went away. Mr. Chu found his wife very much improved by the alteration in the style of her hair. The high top knot and the coronet of pendants were very becoming to her. But suddenly they heard a sound like the clanking of chains and the noise of angry discussion. The bridge jumped up in a fright, and she and Mr. Chu peeped out. They saw a man clad in golden armour, with a face as black as jet, carrying in his hand chains and whips, and surrounded by all the girls. He asked, "Are you all here?" "All," they replied. "If," said he, "any mortal is here concealed amongst you, denounce him at once, and lay not up sorrow for yourselves." Here they all answered as before that there was no one. The man then made a movement as if he would search the place, upon which the bride was dreadfully alarmed, and her face turned the colour of ashes. In her terror she said to Mr. Chu, "Hide yourself under the bed," and opening a small lattice in the wall, disappeared herself. Mr. Chu in his concealment hardly dared to draw his breath; and in a little while he heard the boots tramp into the room and out again, the sound of the voices getting gradually fainter and fainter in the distance. This reassured him, but he still heard the voices of people going backwards and forwards outside, and having 17
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