On such occasions the world, with all its schools, and those who interfere in the concerns of others, continues to revolve around him.

The wondrous sky-lanterns come out silently two by two like to the crystallized music of stringed woods.

Then, in the mystery of no-noise, his head becomes greatly enlarged with celestial and highly-profound thoughts; his groping hand seems to touch matter which may be written out in his impressive style and sold to those who print leaves, and he goes home to write out such." When this person looked up after reading, with tears of shame in his eyes, he perceived that the lesser one had cautiously disappeared.
Therefore, being unable to gain admittance to the inner office, he returned to his home.
Here the remark of the omniscient Tai Loo again fixes itself upon the attention.

No sooner had this incapable person reached his house than he became aware that a parcel had arrived for him from the still adorable Tien.

Retiring to a distance from it, he opened the accompanying letter and read: "When a virtuous maiden has been made the victim of a heartless jest or a piece of coarse stupidity at a person's hands, it is no uncommon thing for him to be struck blind on meeting her father.