Story of the Stone (aka Dream of the Red Chamber), Volume 3: The Warning Voice
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The Story of the Stone Volume 3 Note on Spelling Preface\ Chapter 54:\ Lady Jia ridicules the cliches of romantic fiction; And Wang Xi-feng emulates the filifal antics of Lao Lia-zi\ Chapter 55:\ A foolish concubine seeks to humiliate her own daughter; And an ill-natured stewardess tries to outwit her young mistress\ Chapter 56:\ Resourceful Tan-chun abolilshes abuses in the interests of econoomy; And sapient Bao-chai shows how small consessions can be made without loss of dignity\ Chapter 57:\ Nightengale tests Jade Boy with a startling message; And Aunt Xue comforts Frowner with words of loving kindness\ Chapter 58:\ In which the cock-bird who mourns his mate is found to be a hen; And a true heart is able to sympathize with a strange kind of love\ Chapter 59:\ By Willow Walk the conververs of property resort to violence and abuse; And at Green Delights the defenders of law and order invoke a higher authority\ Chapter 60:\ As a substiture for rose-orris Jia Huan is given jasmine face-powder; And in return for rose essence Cook Liu is given lycoperdon snow\ Chapter 61:\ Bao-yu owns up to a crime he did not commit; And Patience bends authority in order that the innocent may be spared\ Chapter 62:\ A tipsy Xiang-yun sleeps on a peony-petal pillow; And a grateful Caltrop unfastens her pomegranate skirt\ Chapter 63:\ Flower-maidens combine for nocturnal birthday revels; And a grass widow copes with funeral arrangments single-handed\ Chapter 64:\ Five fair women make subjects for a chaste maid's verse; And nine jade dragons make a love-gift for a flirt\ Chapter 65:\ Jia Lian's second marriage is celebrated in secret; And the future marriage of San-jie becomes a matter of speculation\ Chapter 66:\ Shame drives a warm-hearted young woman to take her life; And shock leads a cold-hearted young gentleman to renounce the world\ Chapter 67:\ Frowner sees something that makes her homesick; And Xi-feng hears something that rouses her suspicions\ Chapter 68:\ Er-jie takes up residence in Prospect Garden; And Xi-feng makes a disturbance in Ning-guo House\ Chapter 69:\ A scheming woman kills with a borrowed knife; And one who has ceased to hope swallows gold and dies\ Chapter 70:\ Lin Dai-yu resuscitates the Poetry Club; And Shi Xiang-yun tries her hand at a song lyric\ Chapter 71:\ Lady Xing deliberately humiliates her daughter-in-law; And Faithful inadvertently iterrupts a pair of love-birds\ Chapter 72:\ Wang Xi-fen refuses to see a doctor; And Brightie's wife seeks help with a betrothal\ Chapter 73:\ A half-witted servant girl picks up a highly embarrassing object; And an easy-going young mistress refuses to inquire into a theft\ Chapter 74:\ Lady Wang authorizes a raid on Prospect Garden; And Jia Xi-chun breaks off relations with Ning-guo House\ Chapter 75:\ Midnight revellers are startled by a sound of evil omen; And Mid-Autumn moon-watchers listen to quantrains of unequal merit\ Chapter 76:\ Flute-playing at Convex Pavillion provokes too much melancholy; And linked verses at Concave Pavilion betray a morbid sensitivity\ Chapter 77:\ A wronged maid takes a loving last leave of her master; And three young actresses seek to escape matrimony in the cloister\ Chapter 78:\ Jia Zheng commissions the Ballad of the Winsome Colonel; And Bao-yu composes an Invocation to the Hibiscus Spirit\ Chapter 79:\ Xue Pan finds to his sorrow that he is married to a termagant; And Ying-chun's parents betroth her to a Zhong-shan wolf\ Chapter 80:\ Unfortunate Caltrop is battered by a philandering husband; And One Plaster Wang presribes for an insufferavle wife\ Appendix I: Sandal, Musk, and Skybright\ Appendix II: Suncloud, Sunset and Moonrise\ Appendix III: You San-jie, Liu Xiang-lian and Jia Lian's Journeys\ Appendix IV: Old Mrs. You and the Zhangs\ Appendix V: Fivey, Bao Er and The Mattress\ Appendix VI: Euergesia and the Little Actresses\ Characters in Volume 3\ Genealogical Tables
