I warrant, sir, he is, as you say, a very precise acrimonious person—A tetchy repugnant kind of old gentleman.

I mean, the lines of my body are as well drawn as his.

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire; how little it is biased by the texture of their muslin, and how unsusceptible of peculiar tenderness towards the spotted, the sprigged, the mull, or the jackonet.

After the 1957 Anti-Rightist campaign, there was no way she could be an enterprise manager, and she was eventually assigned to work in the caféteria of the People’s Political Consultative Congress activity center. She immediately began to dedicate the same kind of managerial energy to running the caféteria. Not only did she help to set up a managerial system for the caféteria, she designed and ordered kitchen utensils, and personally made the Sichuan-style pickled vegetables. She converted this caféteria into a good place for Congress members to get a little good food during the years of famine that followed the Great Leap Forward.