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Chinese lack them but for centuries it had suffered from one outstanding disadvantage: prolific in its marriages, those nuptials rarely had resulted in the birth of a girl. The gods had been besought and bribed, offerings made lavishly, vows proffered, temples built, but all to scant avail, for still the wives of the family brought forth men children only. Since a girl must be dowered, the Chinese poor pray for a preponderance of sons, but for a great and ridi noble to be daughterless is to be afflicted and pitied. A lady of the Ch engs had invented China ssweetest wind instrument, and composed three of the great classic love-songs, and at a time of sharp peril had won back to their allegiance the revolting aborigines by her diplomacy, her beauty and her playing of the flute. A nother had invented an imperid glaze, one had improved the telescope, and discovered a constellation, another had excelled all the other court ladies at embroidering, another sl poetess of the Tang dynasty had enriched Chinese literature, one when a decadence of classical learning threatened opened a school, and, lecturing from behind a crimson curtain, to some hundred men and youths, averted the catastrophe, and one had eaten the peaches of immortality that grew in the garden of Hsi Wang Mu, the lady of the West, and that ripen but once in three thousand years, and is now a god with the gods. But these were Ch engs but by marriage, and had been all but barren of daughters; and the few girls bom to the family had been ordinary, in appearance and in gifts; none of the few had achieved distinction, done China or her own clan a great service or made an imperial marriage.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forg

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Excerpt from The Green GoddessOther priests held it his very great grace But they were wrong, for it was no saintship, but simply the su preme sincerity of his love of his wife, making him glad to give to her what he most of all things would have wished to keep for himself: the daily and constant companionship of Jack. And yet - were they wrong after all? Surely to love as this man loved is grace, a grace unto the grace of the Kingdom of Heaven.His wife, his son, and his mother were as much an active part of his daily life to-day as they ever had been; and Jack, the last to be laid there, had lain in the old Surrey churchyard a full score of years. Each day he went to their graves which no hand but his ever tended - it was not far to go; only across the narrow country road-saw that their flowers were fresh, and the bleakest winter's day they had their flowers, and passed on in to pray in the church where his mother and he and Jack had been christened, and where his mother and Helen and he had been married - then back to his home and his people, his tireless, gentle minister ing to good and to sinful, his sipping of good wine, his reading of books, his games and his writing, and his care of Lucilla.He could not remember his father; for the father had gone down with his ship when Philip had been but a baby; and Lucilla could remember neither her mother nor brother; for they had died when she was not three.Helen Reynolds was still remembered in the parish for her pretty face, and her soft kind ways - remem bered as a nice little thing with the best heart in the world, but no special strength of mind or of will.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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