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Yun ,I
think ,is one of the lovelist women in Chinese literature,She is
not the most beautiful , for the auther , her husband, does not
make that claim, and yet who can deny that she is the lovelist? She
is just one of those charming women one sometimes seems in the
house of one's houses of noe's friends. so happy with their
hansbands that one cannot fall in love with them. One is glad
merely to kown that such a women exists in the world and to kown
her as a friend's wife. to be accwpted in her household, to be able
to come uninvited to her home for lunch , or to have her put a
blanket arould one's legs when one falls asleep while she is
discussing paiting and literature and cucumbers in her womanish
manner with her husband. I dare say there are a number of such
women in every generation, except that in Yun , I
seem to feel the qualities of a cultivated and gentle wife combined
to a greater degree of perfection than falls within our common
experience . For who would not like to go out secretly with her
against her parents' wish to the Taihu Lake and see her elated at
the sight of the wide expanse of water , or watch the moon with her
by the Bridge of Ten Thousand Year? And who would not like to go
with her , if she were living in England , and visit the British
Museum , where she would see the medieval illuminated amnuscript
with tears of delight ? Therefore , when I say that she is one of
the loveliest women in Chinese history -for she was a real person
-I do not think I have exaggerated.
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