This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...to be just as sweet tempered if not so handsome as the old go-between had promised. Of course the couple did not set up housekeeping in a nice new home by themselves. That would not have been according to the customs of those days. But Shiu Meng's mother showed herself a woman of sense, in this matter at least. She had ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...to be just as sweet tempered if not so handsome as the old go-between had promised. Of course the couple did not set up housekeeping in a nice new home by themselves. That would not have been according to the customs of those days. But Shiu Meng's mother showed herself a woman of sense, in this matter at least. She had seen to it that a suite of rooms in a pleasant part of the family home was cleaned up and freshened with new paint in a manner very unusual except at Chinese New Year's time. A suitable portion of the best blackwood furniture the big house contained, was selected and placed in these rooms. When the wedding feast was over, the first daughter-in-law of the Chang house was brought there, together with the waiting maid and bridal gifts sent from her father's house, and was duly installed in her new home. While the young people ate and drank and in a general way shared life with the big family of the house, still these pleasant rooms were more like what we think of as a home than a Chinese son's wife usually enjoys. With such a mother-in-law the little bride felt she ought to be very happy indeed. A year and more had passed. Shiu Meng and his wife, Sam Gu (meaning "third one," so called because she was the third child in her family), had now become quite well acquainted. The young man liked to come to the bright little sitting-room where Sam Gu passed most of her time. To be sure, they never talked much together. I am almost as certain as can be he never told her why he liked to come. Probably he himself never knew. The place was more pleasant than the big parlor where the men of the house gathered to smoke and chaff or talk business affairs, or perhaps sat to listen to the old men tell tales of the Chang ancestors and Chinese legends of...
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