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Examples
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The value of the yaun, even if 40% undervalued is NOT the problem.
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Suicide by poison being a forbidden luxury, it recommended itself nimbly unto Mien-yaun's senses.
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After a proper time had elapsed, Mien-yaun was permitted the luxury of
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Some of Mien-yaun's friends, who had sedulously shunned him for six months, lost no time in hastening to him with the agreeable intelligence that he was an orphan and a pauper.
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Mien-yaun, but Mien-yaun was _passé_ now, since that affair with old
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Being very filially pious, of course Mien-yaun was eminent in all these varied accomplishments.
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Mien-yaun shut himself up, and did not stir abroad for a month, lest he should be tracked, and his secret discovered.
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Like an arrow, Mien-yaun flew to the arms of Ching-ki-pin.
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But his imperial word was pledged, -- and as Mien-yaun willed it, so it was.
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As these are the four characteristics of female beauty dearest to a Chinaman's heart, it is no wonder that Mien-yaun thought her a paragon.
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