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Next time I will be the host."She then called up Jordan heels Miss T'ang to ask if Miss T'ang felt better and invited her over, saying that Hung-chien was at her house. After she hung up, she took the flowers Hung-chien had given her and smelled them, instructing the servant to arrange them in the vase in her bedroom. Turning to Hung-chien, she asked,"When you were in England, did you know a Ts'ao Yuan-lang?"Hung-chien shook his head.
"He studied literature at Cambridge. He's a new-style poet who's just returned from abroad. His family and mine have been friends for generations. Yesterday he came to see me, and he's coming again today.""Oh, so that's it," said Hung-chien. Ugg Boots Clearance "No wonder you didn't show up yesterday. All that time you were discussing poetry with someone. We're uncouth, just not worthy of your acquaintance. This Mr. Ts'ao hails from the illustrious Cambridge University, while we are nominal students from newly established colleges.How could we ever qualify to make friends with him?Tell me, since your Eighteen Poets of the Colloquial Style doesn't seem to mention him, are you planning to include him in the next edition?"
Miss Su was half angry and half amused. Waving her finger at him, she said, "You like being jealous, and it's over nothing." Her expression and im plication frightened Jordan Heels Fang Hung-chien so much that he became wordless, and he blamed himself for having done too well at feigning anger.Presently Miss T'ang came in. Miss Su said to her,"Such airs you put on! I called up yesterday to ask about you, and today you didn't even return the call.Now you wouldn't come until I invited you. Mr. Fang was asking about you.""Am I good enough to put on airs?" said Miss T'ang. "I keep getting bossed around; is it so strange that I don't come until summoned? If I refuse to come after being invited, then you can call me self-important."
Afraid that Miss UGG Boots Clearance T'ang might say something about her three telephone calls the day before, Miss Su quickly put her arm around Miss T'ang's waist and said placatingly, "Look at you. I was joking and you take it so seriously." She then peeled an orange Hung-chien had brought and shared it with him. The doorman showed in a perfectly round-faced man,announcing, "Mr. Ts'ao." Hung-chien gave a start. How did his last year's shipmate, Mrs. Sun's child, grow so big already, he wondered, and nearly called Mr.Ts'ao "Broth er Sun." Mrs. Sun's child and the guest did resemble each other a great deal,and somehow Fang felt that UGG boots clearance it was inappropriate for a poet to have such a plump face and big ears, as if those features would mean that his poetry couldn't be any good. Then he suddenly remembered that the T'ang poet Chia Tao'noted for his poetic leanness, was also round-faced and squat in stature, and he shouldn't judge Ts'ao Yuan-lang by his appearance.When the introductions and pleasantries were over,Ts'ao Yuan-lang took a redwood bound copybook from his briefcase and solemnly presented it to Miss Su,saying, "I brought this today especially to ask for your opinion."