[144] Say about £10. See No. II., [note 42].
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[145] The term constantly employed by Confucius to denote the man of perfect probity, learning, and refinement. The nearest, if not an exact, translation would be “gentleman.”
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[146] Literally, “a young lady whose beauty would overthrow a kingdom,” in allusion to an old story which it is not necessary to reproduce here.
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[147] The Lady of the Moon. See No. V., [note 49].
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[148] See No. VIII., [note 64].
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[149] Miss Lien-hsiang was here speaking without book, as will be seen in a story later on.
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[150] The female principle. In a properly-constituted human being the male and female principles are harmoniously combined. Nothing short of a small volume would place this subject, the basis of Chinese metaphysics, in a clear light before the uninitiated reader. Broadly speaking, the yin and the yang are the two primeval forces from the interaction of which all things have been evolved.
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“Ber.—It was about to speak, when the cock crew.
Hor.—And then it started like a guilty thing