by Howard Fast
He nodded. “Yes, yes, I guess so.”
He scrubbed his face and hands at the kitchen sink, washing his body as best he could and then dressing in the clothes May Ling brought him. Her mother and father had retreated upstairs.
“Go in alone,” May Ling said. “I’ll wait here.”
He walked into the living room, and a tall, slender girl of nineteen rose to face him. For a moment, in the shadows of the room, he had the illusion that he was seeing Jean again as he first saw her; and for the same moment, the girl stood and stared at him. He reached out with his hands, and she came into his arms, and he held her there.
“Daddy, I’m so sorry,” she whimpered.
“No, baby. There’s nothing to be sorry for.”
“I missed you. Oh, I missed you so much.”
And all he could say was, “Thank you, darling, thank you.”
In the book of Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu, which Feng Wo had translated from the Chinese and which was published by the University of California Press, there were a few lines from the Natural Way of Lao Tzu:
Moved by deep love, a man is courageous.
And with frugality, a man becomes generous,
And he who does not desire to be ahead of the
world becomes the leader of the world.
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