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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: verses of little worth,-- was Chinese. This Chinese material consisted
chiefly of strange stories; and one of them seems to me worth quoting,--
faute de mieux.
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In the province of Taishu, in China, there was a pious man who, every day,
during many years, fervently worshiped a certain goddess. One morning,
while he was engaged in his devotions, a beautiful woman, wearing a yellow
robe, came into his chamber and stood before him. He, greatly surprised,
asked her what she wanted, and why she had entered unannounced. She
answered: "I am not a woman: I am the goddess whom you have so long and so
faithfully worshiped; and I have now come to prove to you that your
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