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He therefore applied to the superior Manda-rines to call Wey-phey to account for his presumption.

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Mandarine who at this juncture possessed that office was Wey-phey; being the same person whom Tieh-chung-u had formerly befriended in rescuing and restoring to him his mistress.

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Page view page image: governor Wey-phey, who presented himself before him.

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Emperor: who accepted it, and gave orders for Wey-phey to be summoned to court, in order to justify his conduct.

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Wey-phey called together all the clerks belonging to the tribunal*

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When he had finished it, he asked his mother for his father's chop or seal: and taking that, together with the petition of Wey-phey, he put them both in his sleeve, and bade the servant shew him the way to his father.

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Wey-phey stood amazed and motionless, with his eyes fixed on Tieh-chung-u 'till he was out of sight, not knowing whether what had happened was real or a dream.

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Then looking round to see, that nobody was within hearing, he related all that had happened on his journey, both the discourse he had had with the old woman, and with Wey-phey, whose petition he shewed him.

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"Sir and brother, said Wey-phey, this favour you do me is as great as the heaven and the earth."

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Wey-phey received this summons from the Viceroy: together with private notice to make the best preparations he could for his defence, for that he had powerful enemies to contend with.

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