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THE SHỞ KING.
PART I.
said, 'Yes, I have heard of him. What have you to say about him ?' The Chief said, 'He is the son of a blind man. His father was obstinately unprincipled ; his (step-mother was insincere; his (half-) brother Hsiang was arrogant. He has been able, (however), by his filial piety to live in harmony with them, and to lead them gradually to self-government, so that they (no longer) proceed to great wickedness.' The Ti said, 'I will try him; I will wive him, and thereby see his behaviour with my two daughters.' (Accordingly) he arranged and sent down his two daughters to the north of the Kwei", to be wives in the family of) Yü. The Ti said to them, 'Be reverent!
1 The Kwei is a small stream in Shan-hsî, which flows into the Ho.
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