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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: I could not but feel sad that I had not been in the city, and had
had an opportunity to help them to ascertain whether her life had
really gone out. But the girls seemed proud of the distinction of
having had a sister of such consummate virtue. Numerous
embroidered scrolls and laudatory inscriptions were sent her from
friends of the Li family as well as of their own, and it is
expected that the throne will order a memorial arch erected to
her memory.
On another occasion I was requested to go to the palace of one of
the princes. The fourth Princess, a beautiful little child of
five, was ill with diphtheria, and the first greeting of the
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