Chang Fei (1820?-1862) was a native of Ching-yang, Shensi.

You are one night owl, Monsieur Reetchie, he said. / And you seem to prefer the small hours for your visits, Monsieur de St. Gré, I could not refrain from replying.

I was in here four times, and went out to try to get on, but couldn't, affor I comed in sixteen years ago, and my old woman was in affor she died.

Psychobiography as a still-developing field will not benefit from being divided into preserves where certain subjects are studied only by like-gendered or like-cultured or like-minded psychobiographers.