Yaun

The value of the yaun, even if 40% undervalued is NOT the problem. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Suicide by poison being a forbidden luxury, it recommended itself nimbly unto Mien-yaun's senses. ❋ Various (N/A)

In deep abstraction, Mien-yaun seized it, and, instead of drinking the boiling beverage, poured it upon the old woman's back, scalding her to such a degree that her shrieks resounded through the neighborhood. ❋ Various (N/A)

But the enraptured Mien-yaun, blind to everything except his own overwhelming happiness, saw and heard them not. ❋ Various (N/A)

As she stood an instant timidly on the portal, she seemed almost a divinity, -- at least, Mien-yaun thought so. ❋ Various (N/A)

After a proper time had elapsed, Mien-yaun was permitted the luxury of ❋ Various (N/A)

Annoyed at what a few months before he would have delighted in as another convincing proof of his influential position, Mien-yaun fled the city, and sought relief in a cruise up and down the Peiho, in his private junk. ❋ Various (N/A)

Mien-yaun shut himself up, and did not stir abroad for a month, lest he should be tracked, and his secret discovered. ❋ Various (N/A)

Like an arrow, Mien-yaun flew to the arms of Ching-ki-pin. ❋ Various (N/A)

When Mien-yaun had pined nearly half away, and was considering within himself whether it was expedient to commence upon the other half, word was brought to him, one day, that his father, whom he had not seen for some weeks, had met with an accident. ❋ Various (N/A)

Deeper than ever plummet sounded was Mien-yaun's wretchedness now. ❋ Various (N/A)

All these eccentricities served only to add to the consequence of the multipotent Mien-yaun. ❋ Various (N/A)

Mien-yaun, but Mien-yaun was _passé_ now, since that affair with old ❋ Various (N/A)

The old woman was delighted, and ran off to prepare the desired refreshment, so that Mien-yaun was at length rewarded by the opportunity of a few private words with the daughter. ❋ Various (N/A)

Being very filially pious, of course Mien-yaun was eminent in all these varied accomplishments. ❋ Various (N/A)

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. ❋ Various (N/A)

Mien-yaun was the worst-abused individual in the world, and that Pekin had forever dishonored itself by ill-treating the greatest genius that city had ever produced. ❋ Various (N/A)

But his imperial word was pledged, -- and as Mien-yaun willed it, so it was. ❋ Various (N/A)

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. ❋ Various (N/A)

The moment they crossed the threshold, Mien-yaun and Ching-ki-pin went into a simultaneous fit. ❋ Various (N/A)