With the successive emperors as his personal admirers and the empresses as his friends, Su Tungpo managed to be demoted and arrested, and to live in disgrace.
" That is exactly the question which I expected you to ask.A lady's imagination is very rapid. It jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment."
That rosy cheeks don't last forever, that silver threads will come in the bonnie brown hair, and that, by–and–by, kindness and respect will be as sweet as love and admiration now.
" That is exactly the question which I expected you to ask. A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment. I knew you would be wishing me joy."
" Not a bit of it, I'm dying to do it. Come, I'll be good. I don't like your gown, but I do think you are just splendid." And he waved his hands, as if words failed to express his admiration.